Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Air Force, ‘Department of Defense Weather Programs’, undated, circa 1999, at 13 Fleming: see note 10. degrade those of the adversary’ (emphasis added).14 These ideas are hardly new, and neither is the technology to induce floods or droughts. What is new, however, is the electromagnetic weaponry available to do these things on a global […]

The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. * new* Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. […]

View from Bridge

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[…] Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who k new no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his memoir: I had been concerned […]

View from Bridge 89

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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The View from the Bridge

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[…] 10 An appreciation is at . 11 12 or 13 The Brexiteer’s gazette There’s a smart, political novel by a sometime CIA officer Joseph Finder, Guilty Minds (New York: Dutton/Penguin Group, 2016). Watching the progress of a smear story from the Net into the major media, one character asks if it has reached the […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] largest in the world and in relation to their GDP, bigger than Saudi Arabia’.10 The British House of Commons Library report, Energy Security, which mentions the ‘ new scramble for Africa’, states: ‘African oil 2005: Proven reserves: 114 billion barrels; 9.5% of world total – concentrated in Libya, Nigeria and Algeria’. Think about what […]

The view from the bridge

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