The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that landed him in prisons for the rest of his long life? Or was the daring 900-mile flight on Saturday, 10 May 1941,1 part of a failed coup d’état by certain well-known high Tories, attempting a ceasefire with Nazi Germany by removing Churchill as war leader? The facts about May 10, just six weeks […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] expansion of clandestine military operations in both hostile and friendly countries. Popular Congressman, Ron Paul, has openly stated in recent months that there has been a CIA coup in America! Daniel Ellsberg, who says the coup began on 9-11, has said that Obama is deceiving the American public as Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon did […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on 9/11 is that we didn’t have a strategy, we didn’t have bipartisan agreement, we didn’t have American understanding of it, and we had instead a policy coup in this country – a coup – a policy coup. Some hard-nose people took over the direction of American policy and they never bothered to inform […]

Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] here on a site put up by A. J. (Allan) Weberman: . Weberman’s name probably rings a bell. He was the coauthor of the JFK assassination book Coup d’état in America back in 1975 that, if I’m not mistaken, was the first use of the term coup d’état in connection with the assassination and […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] mile from the White House, what chance had a life-long critic of US foreign policy – his children’s Chilean-born mother was a refugee from the Kissinger-backed Pinochet coup – who had landed the task of leading a party of diminished and largely demoralised members after two general election defeats?3 This perspective is not one […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] new round of NATO enlargement, which would include Ukraine and Georgia. Ukraine looks West The dissolution of the USSR began on 18 August 1991, following an abortive coup against Gorbachev by Communist Party and KGB elements anxious to preserve the Union. Gorbachev sat it out in his holiday dacha on the Crimea and was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the New Statesman recently. Pond’s essay is a good example of the sophisticated end of the good guys/bad guys position;40 and she makes no reference to the coup run there by the Americans and their local allies.41 One minor difference between Cold War 2 and this one is the attitude of the New Statesman. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] digital copy of his book, The Mountbattens.14 About the Mountbattens I know little. But I was curious to see what Lownie offered about the 1968 Cecil King ‘coup’ event. It’s pretty much the story as 12 13 See, for instance, Greg Palast’s recounting of how that all started (from July of 1998) at or […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Lownie 12 13 See, for instance, Greg Palast’s recounting of how that all started (from July of 1998) at or 14 offered about the 1968 Cecil King ‘coup’ event. It’s pretty much the story as before, though firmed up a little. Yes, there was a meeting called by Cecil King, the Chair of the […]

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