The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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. 43 or 44 45 46 14 Changing times . . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]

The View from the Bridge

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Hollow Hegemony

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[…] Africa Command (AFRICOM)? 10 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Orford Ness had a very extensive array of Over the Horizon radar antennae that were used to track Soviet communications and monitor Soviet missile tests. The pirate station could, therefore, have been either interfering with this work or listening in to it on behalf of the eastern bloc. Page 30 […]

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