[…] de refusés, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Harold Pinter, Greg Palast, Edward Herman et al, have amassed a body of work that exposes NED orchestration of the failed coup against President Chávez in 2002, the 2004 coup against President Aristide of Haiti resulting in the slaughter of thousands of women, children and men, and similar […]
[…] the impact of strike action in the essential services, and were linked to rumours that elements in the military and intelligence establishment were contemplating some kind of coup to overthrow the minority Labour government which had taken up office in March 1974. This view was expressed at the time by Tony Benn (2) and […]
[…] British SAS troops fought alongside American “special forces”.’ Pilger’s footnote refers the reader to a section of William Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, on the Iran coup. But what are the ‘official records’ which tell us about ‘British and CIA terrorism’ in British Guiana in 1953? My initial reaction to this was, I […]
[…] ‘MI6, Bush and Foot and Mouth.’ (6) This begins with one of Logan’s most striking and most implausible claims: ‘The author, Gordon Logan, triggered the premature Moscow Coup of August 1991, that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union.’ Well, not according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he didn’t. In an interview […]
[…] sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek- coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used in Australia […]
[…] but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher ‘Monty’ Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk’s observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse’s retirement home in Oxford: ‘The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, was, […]
[…] They have been building also between proponents of a non-violent transition to a more democratic civil society, and provocations that would suggest a possible intervention or even coup by some elements of the Indonesian Army. These same conditions in 1965 led to an army intervention, and a change of leadership accompanied by an army-backed […]
[…] only Stuart Christie’s Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist is willing to begin with the fact that most of the conspiracies, the terror, and the coup plotting has come from the right, and in a modern industrialised society such activities are only possible for long if the State tolerates them, or is, […]
[…] Evans (London 1983) Two fragments of some interest in this. On p226: “In the late 1960s it (ie The Times) encouraged Cecil King’s lunatic notion of a coup against Harold Wilson’s government in favour of a government of business leaders led by Lord Roben.” This seems to be a new addition to the extant […]
[…] she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky and Kuzichkin – notably the latter, who disappeared without trace […]
