Category: NATO
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Armageddon.
There is a memorable scene in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove where the leaders of America and Russia find themselves locked into a catastrophic war because of the existence of a doomsday machine originally designed to enforce world peace. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer now faces a potential doomsday scenario of his own. He is trying…
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Flying Under the Radar.
Part 1: Jim Gavin 1. Air Intelligence officer. Fianna Fáil’s presidential candidate, Jim Gavin, served as an Air Intelligence staff officer in the Irish Air Corps during an exemplary 20-year career with Óglaigh na hÉireann. He was one of the most accomplished pilots in the Air Corps and rose to become Chief Flying Instructor at…
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The Mountbatten Dossier. [WebBook]
1. The exposure of Mountbatten. Frank Doherty and I were the first to reveal Lord Louis Mountbatten’s link to the Kincora scandal. We did so in April 1990. See Mountbatten exposed, 1990. Kincora was run by three men who were convicted of child abuse in December 1981: William McGrath, Joseph Mains and Raymond Semple. McGrath…
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Technology neutralises our neutrality. Irish infrastructure used in US Drone strikes. By David Waldron.
Margaretta D’Arcy found herself jailed in January 2014 on the back of a protest she mounted at Shannon Airport in 2012. What was she protesting about? US troop aircraft using Shannon as a stopover on their journey to the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan among other things. D’Arcy is a rare stalewart against the steady…
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