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The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] to serve his sentence. We had not seen each other since Dorothy’s funeral. We dined at Yenching Palace, a well-known Chinese restaurant in Washington where the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was 43 See for example . : ‘A long and involved explanation; a thing of which an explanation would be long and involved.’ […]
Ukrainian Psyops
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
View from the bridge
[…] 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. 29 Available from . 9 30 Twixt lip and cup (or something) A classic of the headline–and–text–differing genre was on the Daily Mail site of […]
Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan
View from the bridge
[…] 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. 29 9 together the fragments of information then available about the Economic League. Thirty years later Hughes has had another crack at it. In the […]
Ukrainian psyops
[…] 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
[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 […]
Hollow Hegemony
[PDF file]: […] Pentagon’s Africa Command (AFRICOM)? If ‘international policy-making in the post-Cold War era an idealised projection of the western self’, how does the Predator drone firing the Hellfire missile into a wedding party in Afghanistan fit into this? Nothing the author discusses seems to me to deal with the reality of the greatest and most […]