Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

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 […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] solution was to avoid Yugoslavia becoming embroiled in Churchill’s adventures.38 Two days after aligning Yugoslavia with Germany, Italy and Japan, Prince Paul was overthrown by a UK-backed coup. Many commentators regard this as a deliberate action taken to derail peace moves of the UK opposition, which were becoming significant. Hitler retaliated immediately. Operation Barbarossa […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] clear class bias of his administration’. Moreover, ‘the most active and violent part of Trump’s base is coming from a segment of the middle class’ the attempted coup of January 6, 2021 was spearheaded by members of the middle class’. He quotes one study that revealed that of the 501 people arrested over the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Appendices

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 […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] . 39 pages of assertion about the creation and meaning of the Symbionese Liberation Army. For the time, astonishing indeed. Reliability? 20 21 7 for a political coup d’etat in the United States was assembled at the time of their arrest. The team of men represented at the hotel went all the way from […]

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