Ukrainian psyops

Lobster Issue

[…] the so-called Zaporizhzhia Avenger. This time, the military marvel was a 19-year-old gunner who had used portable surface-to-air artillery to down six Russian planes and a cruise missile. Perhaps still feeling stung by the Ghost of Kyiv debacle from three months earlier, international media ignored this new character and no more was heard of […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] deterrent at all) and by both the willingness and the ability to project power beyond the European theatre. That is why an upgrade for the Trident nuclear missile was agreed and why two new aircraft carriers have been built, all at vast expense, in the last decade. It is why Britain went to war […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] point – was Wilson a Soviet agent? Macmillan was simultaneously trying to persuade an irritated, reluctant and puzzled US that the UK should borrow/share the Polaris nuclear missile system (why didn’t the British just build their own?). Wilson and Labour looked absolutely certain to win an election held at any time in 1963-1964. Advised […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] 24 July 2013, at . 13 The fan convention was livestreamed by Mark Adam Harold, YouTube.com, 8 July 2023. See . Archived at . 14 4 and missile batteries, with residents advised to leave the city if possible to avoid the disruption.15 The nearby NAFO fan convention was opened in person by Lithuania’s Foreign […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] the business of selling secure shelters where the wealthy can sit out the misfortunes that befall the rest of us. Many of these are converted Cold War missile silos. As with ReGen it isn’t clear how many of these have been built. But, there again, if you were buying one and fitting it out, […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] One consequence of this was that the Lough Erne corridor remained in use for fighter and reconnaissance flights into the Atlantic. As noted above, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Seán Lemass authorised searches of aircraft that stopped over at Shannon between Warsaw Pact countries and Cuba; and that same year (1962) went on record […]

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