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[…] Union had no aggressive military intent and had developed its nuclear arsenal in response to NATO’s. The Russia of today is an aggressive, violent, kleptocracy, willing to kill tens of thousands of people – including its own citizens – in pursuit of geopolitical ends and the personal wealth of its leaders. Russiagate ‘Russiagate’ centres […]

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[…] know if Oswald was the first choice.) In a recent article Bleau analyses two groups of letters that have been found, apparently 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.22 Bleau concludes: Find out who […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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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 […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the defence industry (London: Sphere Books, 1990) p. 191 9 Perhaps, we may then speculate, that Dr Kelly also used ‘his exceptional powers of scientific understanding’ to kill himself by using his weak right arm to sever the ulnar artery, one which rarely permits sufficient bleeding to cause death. Would a scientist with equally […]

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[…] out. To take the obvious https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2023/jun/21/uk-inflation-cost-of-livingsqueeze-food-energy-interest-rates-mortgages-business-live 3 See under subhead More on 5G in this column in Lobster 80. Or see Christopher Ketcham, ‘Is 5G Going to Kill Us All?’ in The New Republic, 8 May 2020 at . 4 ‘Mobile phone calls, genetic susceptibility, and new-onset hypertension: results from 212 046 UK Biobank […]

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[…] out. To take the obvious https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2023/jun/21/uk-inflation-cost-of-livingsqueeze-food-energy-interest-rates-mortgages-business-live 3 See under subhead More on 5G in this column in Lobster 80. Or see Christopher Ketcham, ‘Is 5G Going to Kill Us All?’ in The New Republic, 8 May 2020 at . 4 ‘Mobile phone calls, genetic susceptibility, and new-onset hypertension: results from 212 046 UK Biobank […]

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

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[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 […]

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