[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more
[…] Paris of Victor Oschenko, who was said to be his Soviet controller. Igor Prelin, who was the spokesman for Vladimir Kryuchkov, the KGB leader behind the failed coup of August 1991, told me that he knew nothing about that British/Russian spy. I was born and raised in Oporto. Nowadays I work in Lisbon at […]
[…] .'(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 […]
[PDF file]: […] I attempt a general overview of U.S. relations since World War 2 to the drug traffic, including Genovese, in my Foreword to Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup (Boston: South End Press, 1980), pp. 1-26. 4 3 Brooklyn jail.5 A vigorous prosecution of the Tresca case was even less likely than of the earlier […]
