[…] serious row in September 1988 when we considered inviting Gerry Adams on to the programme. Adams had apparently agreed to what was at the time quite a coup: he would sit down with sworn political enemies. One of our team, seeking advice on how best to construct a balanced group of discussants, asked a […]
[…] the Kennedy White House while secretly coaching the cabal of generals who murdered President Diem and his opium-addicted brother Nhu on 2 November 1963. After the bloody coup d’etat, Conein remained in South Vietnam until 1968 – but not without further controversy. As noted, McCoy contends that Ellsberg and Conein had formed a fast […]
Empires Apart: America And Russia From The Vikings To Iraq Brian Landers Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2009, £15, p/b Is America an empire? Tsarist Russia and its Soviet successor were certainly seen as such through western eyes. That America is not showing the heavily ideologised world through which we frame history. In a bold sweep … Read more
[…] a background on Tyneside) and Paul Kenny (London Region, former employee of Hammersmith and Fulham council). Curran won, shifting control of the entire union, in a considerable coup, back to the North East. One wonders if the curious and expedient volte-face of Mr Blair re: Ken Livingstone and the London mayoralty a few months […]
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the U.S. House of Representatives 1978 L.M.P. Systems 10420 Plano Road, Suite 101 Dallas, Texas 75238, USA In the last issue of Lobster while re-viewing two JFK-related CD-ROMS I half jokingly suggested that the Warren Commission Hearing and Exhibits and the House Select Committee evidentiary … Read more
[…] if true – I am unable to decide. Since the Pentagon has control of most things which affect its well-being, why would they bother with a formal coup? When I first came across Scott’s term parapolitics in the 1970s, as well as being a subject area, it also seemed to me to be a […]
[…] over the Andes. That’s for starters. In all, the IMF’s 167 loan conditions look less like an assistance plan and more like a blueprint for a financial coup d’état.’ To my albeit limited knowledge of the literature on the IMF this is the first time the details of such a programme has been revealed […]
[…] .'(14) (How would he know what is in MI6 files in the MOD?) A little further on he mentions, without explanation or sourcing, ‘the ill-conceived Royalist/Schellenberg/I.G. Farben coup d’etat in which Himmler would take over and permanently restore the monarchy. A representative of Himmler’s Gestapo would then meet with Halifax in London to confirm […]
[…] passage from government to consultancy to corporation and back again.’ But then quickly afterwards they argue that the removal of the Gough Whitlam government in a ‘constitutional coup’ in Australia in 1975 led to commendable reform. Even their term ‘legal authoritarianism’ betrays a sort of mild shock-horror at the extent of the unfolding policies. […]
[…] left in Europe and America, who hate Bush’s America, the idea that the world has been conned by a vast sleight of hand, in effect by a coup d’etat, which is being covered-up, is terribly sexy. It is to me, too. As is the role of campaigner who will pull back the curtain and […]
