View from Bridge 87

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[…] . ‘The sector gave more than £60m to Boris Johnson’s party over ten years, new analysis by Transparency International shows.’ 25 10 Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.26 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] 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’.17 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] 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’.17 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] 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’.4 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 Presidential election trying to enlist the support […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] unpredictable outcome of a CIA operation that, in the simplest terms, tripped on its own shoelaces.’6 3 His theory was amplified by authors of the best-seller Silent Coup and endorsed on the speaker circuit by Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy.6 4 They hold that when details of a Columbia Plaza prostitution ring became known to […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Generals made clear, repeatedly, that they would not countenance Trump trying to overthrow the election result. They refused to be a part of the kind of coup Trump was clearly plotting – which would have put in place an authoritarian regime modelled on those he so openly admired. If they had made it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] was Owen Jones on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] was Owen Jones on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with […]

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