The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] acknowledged. David Kelly’s death I have never been greatly interested in this for two reasons. First, I cannot see why anyone or any group would bother to kill Kelly. Cui bono? Norman Baker MP, I understand – I haven’t read his book – concludes (his best guess) that he was ‘suicided’ by a pro-Saddam […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] railroads’. The authors speculate that a ‘clean’ nuclear weapon might have been ‘an airburst of a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon, so as to minimize fallout effects but kill soldiers, truck drivers, and other logistics personnel in the area through immediate radiation effects.’ (p. 233) Fortunately, Nixon did not initiate a nuclear war, but he […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] “cold war” fought throughout the 1980s in which rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis […]

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Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain (continued) The Bandera legacy Under Stepan Bandera’s leadership, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)1 had pledged allegiance to Nazi Germany, since both the Third Reich and the OUN sought to defeat the Soviet Union.2 The OUN’s paramilitary branch, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, enthusiastically helped to round up and […]

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