[PDF file]: […] Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment Thomas Hippler London: Verso, 2017, £11.99, p/b The first use of aerial bombardment took place on 1 November 1911 in Libya. An Italian airman, Giulio Gavotti, dropped a hand-held bomb onto an Arab encampment and supposedly ‘revolutionized warfare’. This was an inevitable revolution, but Gavotti has the […]
[PDF file]: […] chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 Dispatches documentary […]
[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
[PDF file]: […] over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the Obama administration contemplated their use during […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate – again On the American left it is almost universally believed that the claim that Russians tried to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016 is a hoax. As I […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate – again On the American left it is almost universally believed that the claim that Russians tried to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016 is a hoax. As I […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Still in Dallas On JFKfacts is a recent note by Chad Neagle, ‘Tale of Two Defectors; One was thoroughly debriefed by the CIA. The other was accused of killing JFK.’1 Neagle points […]
[PDF file]: Lockerbie Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies Morag G. Kerr Leicester: Matador Books, £12.99, p/b www.troubador.co.uk/troubador A bout half of this book is a study of baggage-handling systems in airports. Another large chunk is about the forensic examination of the explosion and the attempt to determine where the bomb was placed in the […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. […]
[PDF file]: […] that the British had no problem whatsoever supporting Islamist rebels against a secular government! He was also involved in an abortive attempt to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. And he set up one of the first modern private military companies in 1967, Watchguard International, indicating that mercenary outfits were now once again regarded as […]
