[PDF file]: […] for strategic thinking, no interest in learning from his mistakes, a non-existent attention span’ so that his attempts to steal the 2020 election, including ‘the deadly QAnon Coup attempt of January 6’, failed. Trump thankfully ‘was inept, and terrible at implementing his impulses’. (pp. 20-21) The revised edition of The Useful Idiot certainly repays […]
[PDF file]: […] might this have happened? She would still have won the 1987 election, and would still have introduced the Poll Tax, which Tebbitt also supported. When the anti-Thatcher coup happened, he might have stood, but would he have beaten John Major and/or Michael Heseltine? This must be debatable because, on balance, either Major or Heseltine […]
[PDF file]: […] Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, the first former colony to achieve independence, and the focus of much of Africa’s rising nationalism. He was eventually removed in a coup in 1966. She has another detailed run though the 1961 death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld but is still unable to say with certainty which state […]
[PDF file]: […] and Oleg Kerensky, a noted bridge engineer. Oleg Kerensky was the son of Alexander Kerensky, briefly Prime Minister of Russia in 1917, until ousted in a Bolshevik coup. T. Dan Smith actually began his political career in the Revolutionary Communist Party – a significant UK Trotskyist group – with Gerry Healy, Ted Grant et […]
[…] files from 1977/8 there is a copy of an FBI report concerning one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did […]
[PDF file]: […] as part of ‘the Axis of Evil’, but Iranians were well aware of ‘a history of Western aggression’ against their country, going back to the CIA-SIS sponsored coup of 1953. He makes the point that the US had no problem with the Shah’s nuclear programme (‘the United States gave Iran its first reactor in […]
[PDF file]: […] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.10 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]
[PDF file]: […] been feted in Washington, welcomed ‘to the Pentagon with an honor cordon’, even though his corruption was well-known and it was even feared he might stage a coup to seize power for himself. He ‘did little to hide his involvement in drug trafficking’ and, according to an interview with Col. Russell Thaden, the NATO […]
[PDF file]: […] hosted a number of confidential meetings between German military and diplomatic figures and British FO advisors. However, the British preference for not removing Hitler via a military coup and keeping him as a reliable anti-Communist instead drove them all to despair, with one, Wolfgang zu Putlitz, memorably commenting ‘…..the English think they are wise […]
