[…] Patel and his fellow cohorts in Donald Trump’s inner circle suggest. The actual danger is that the man who tried – however incompetently – to stage a coup on 6 January 2021 has been re-elected to the Presidency. An openly authoritarian, seemingly quasi-fascist, regime has thus been installed. It is safe to assume that […]
[PDF file]: […] beautifully demonstrated by the appointment of Jared Lane as an adviser in the US Justice Department. Lane was one of those arrested after the failed 6 January coup, but pardoned by Trump before he came to trial. He was among those who broke into the Senate and was filmed calling the police Nazis and […]
[PDF file]: […] build an absolute monarchy similar to the one evident in the France of Louis XIV. The Whigs used the power they won through what was essentially a coup d’état to build the Empire and enormously expand their own fortunes in the process. They dominated governments, challenged only by another significant group of aristocrats, the […]
[…] Sich-14.17 Sich-14 is For simplicity’s sake, this essay uses the term ‘Maidan’ to denote the popular uprisings in Ukraine that began in November 2013. The term ‘ coup’ is used to denote the climax of the uprisings, i.e. the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s President Yanukovich in February 2014. 15 The word ‘Donbas’ denotes Ukraine’s […]
[PDF file]: […] or for the immense grammatical howlers such as ‘My Cameo Appearance on BBC Today programme, to discuss the Rhodes statue, not the Virus Panic’.40 (emphasis added) Bungled coup joke (stolen from a wag on Twitter) A spoof Yelp-type review of mercenary company ‘Silvercorp USA’:41 ‘Friendly service, clean office but got caught while planning a […]
[…] class more palatable. With the support of the Democratic Party, the liberal media, academia and social media platforms in Silicon Valley, demonize the victims of the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with those who embrace identity politics, whether they are on Wall Street or in the Pentagon. They […]
[PDF file]: […] some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.66 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]
[…] some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]
[…] some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]
[…] some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.27 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]
