Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] leader!), who was increasingly out of touch with reality. The final proof was during the abdication crisis when Mosley confidently expected Edward VIII to stage a constitutional coup, dissolving Parliament and installing him as Prime Minister. The call never came, although there were a few in Establishment circles who were worried that the King […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] American right-wingers). Both the British and smaller U.S. money markets had poured a lot of money into investments in Russia in the 30 years before the Bolshevik coup. It would hardly be a surprise to find all the major money-lenders of Europe, a few of whom were Jews, in there, as well. When the […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] assassination, he writes: ‘Meanwhile, General Walker, the far-right American Security Council (including General Lansdale and Air America Chairman Admiral Felix Stump) and Texas ultras started plotting their coup d’etat in Dallas.’ He presents no evidence of this; nor is there any, to my knowledge. On p.431 he writes: ‘….the CIA imported Phoenix to America […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] to ‘circumvent the informational controls imposed by authoritarian regimes on their citizens……… for example, the Chinese students in Tiananmen Square and the Russian democrats during the Moscow coup used computer networks to communicate with kindred spirits around the world’. It notes that it played an important role in recent conflicts. Citizens of Sarajevo could […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] second paper provides a glimpse of the relevant operational guidelines. It begins by reaffirming that ‘It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup’. Even if this could not happen by 24 October ‘efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond that date’, on a clandestine basis ‘so that the […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] had rebelled against Eve Balfour and her aristocratic cronies, established the more vigorous and practical organisations, the Organic Growers Association and British Organic Farmers; and staged a coup within the Soil Association which revitalised it and made it more relevant to the late-twentieth century. Some of the leading figures – Peter Segger and Dr. […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
A Franco-German Bomb? A study by the German historian Werner Abelhauser casts new light on Franco-German efforts to provide the youthful European Economic Community with military capability.(1) The essay is notable because it adds another dimension to our grasp of how and why the EEC was formed. Most modern work follows from the thesis developed … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] a fabrication by the USA and UK. But to produce the evidence is another. Curtis has produced the evidence – and, as the extract on the Iran coup reproduced above shows, often from official papers. And to my knowledge, no-one else has. Given the pathetic intellectual and social deference paid to the Foreign Office […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] big in the 1960s and after – this is an aspect of Lazards in New York we have not covered, though IT and T’s involvement in the coup in Chile is well known. (18) Ideological arguments are spouted to justify the large-scale plunder that is taking place, but monetarism is merely a facade behind […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] investment came from Harvard University’s endowment fund, on whose board of directors sat an old Bush family friend, Robert Stone Jnr. Then in 1990 came Harken’s biggest coup – winning a Bahrain deal against bids from oil giants Amoco and Chevron. This was despite the fact that Harken had never been engaged in international […]
