Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of life occasioned to white troops by such expeditionary work would be avoided, whilst the cost would be considerably reduced’. The fact that such bombardment would inevitably kill noncombatants was more than compensated by the reduction in troop casualties and the comparative cheapness of the use of air power. And this seemed to be […]

View from the bridge

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[…] not know if Oswald was the first choice.) In a recent article Bleau analyses two groups of letters that have been found, discussing a Cuban attempt to kill JFK. Bleau notes that this disinformation operation began shortly after the defeat of the CIA’s Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.5 Bleau concludes: Find out who […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and re-examining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

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[PDF file]: […] ‘defining moment’ in ‘the Era of Pandemonium’, was the president discovering ‘that disinfectant kills the virus . . . Maybe injecting the right kind of disinfectant might kill the thing’. (pp. 184-185) At the time of writing the US death toll from the pandemic has just exceeded 600,000 people. Smock is also outraged by […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] racists are strangling Israel. Moses made it clear that he knew what went on inside the Knesset. He told me that the fanatics who regularly threatened to kill moderate politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] MI6 head Stuart Menzies. 65 While working for Interdoc, ‘with the other chaps’ Ellis put together an “action group”, keeping it “private and confidential as publicity would kill it”. (Stevenson 1985 p. 272) What this “action group” did isn’t known. Ellis was a contributor to Crozier’s 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had once signed a treaty with Sikorski and much later was able to declare on his honour that he had no knowledge of any Soviet attempt to kill the general. Both aircraft were parked close to a high wire fence which marked the frontier with neutral Spain and they were under observation by German […]

Misc reviews

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[…] After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and reexamining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, plotted with the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel to kill the Saudi ambassador on orders from forces within the Iranian State.2 The source of these allegations was a Mexican gangster, already facing criminal charges on an […]

Garrick part 2

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Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain – part 2 V: The dogs of war You have to recognise that, you should tell people, that so much of the social media content that they are getting, that is popping up on their feeds or what-have-you . . . . It’s deliberately done. No different to […]

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