Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] relations. 16 25 February 2015 at Yet Putin’s actions in Ukraine were not taken until the overthrow of a democratically elected pro-Russian regime in Kiev, in a coup d’etat in which, Moscow contends, an American hand was clearly visible. Not only was John McCain in Kiev’s Maidan Square egging on the crowds that drove […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] them as ‘agents’. This makes him (or her but usually him) look good, justifies his/her overseas posting and enables him/her to claim some more expenses. A right-wing coup A meeting held between Lord Mountbatten of Burma, several senior journalists and government advisers has long been the foundation for claims that a plot existed in […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] are only two things which raised my eyebrows. The first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which shows that JFK was discussing discussing the […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] a group alleged to be linked to ‘AQIM’. A month later, the Pentagon cancelled Flintlock. In March, junior officers in the Mali Army mutinied, leading to a coup led by Captain Amadou Sanogo.5 2 After a talk at Brown University, an African speaker asked AFRICOM Commander General Ham: ‘The United States Africa Command was […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] simply not reported or misreported. Blum makes clear – what should be obvious – that the Soviet Union was not a party to a single war or coup from 1945 to 1989 and that the US government knew this. Page 68 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 Much of this early action took place when John […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] of OPC/CIA had worked there before he went into intelligence, as had Kermit Roosevelt’s grandfather.5 (Kermit Roosevelt, who is perhaps best known for his role in the coup in Iran) went round America’s largest corporations asking, “Are you patriotic?”, raising money for the CIA front companies and securing the use of their trusts and […]