[…] war did not scuttle détente, it nevertheless brought the United States closer to a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. The American military airlift to Israel, moreover, had led Arab oil producers to embargo oil shipments to the United States and some Western European countries, […]
[…] dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog’s report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?’10 The answer to the question in the headline appears to be ‘Yes’. The email – reproduced in full on the Mail site – […]
[…] war did not scuttle détente, it nevertheless brought the United States closer to a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. The American military airlift to Israel, moreover, had led Arab oil producers to embargo oil shipments to the United States and some Western European countries, […]
[PDF file]: […] none of it. He argues that Putin is reacting to a series of Western measures seen by Moscow as threatening and provocative. These include the establishment of missile defence systems in Eastern Europe to ‘within a rocket’s throw from Moscow’, the expansion of NATO towards Russia’s borders (this was a key feature of the […]
[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 102 or 103 33 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]
[PDF file]: […] sectors, with factories in the east of Ukraine supplying Russia with hardware such as helicopter engines (produced in Zaporizhia), ICBMs (designed and made in Dnepropetrovsk), and a missile guidance system (from Kharkiv).35 A Ukrainian pivot to the West would not only deprive Russia of a key market, it would threaten its links with what […]
[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 85 or 86 28 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]
[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 72 or 73 25 contact with Colin Wallace. Because the scandal has never been properly examined officially, the story keeps cropping-up. The latest instalment is […]
