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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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 […]

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 Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

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 […]

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 […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] biographical data about the Watergate personnel. But she also wrote this in it: The significance of the Watergate Affair is that every element essential 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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] biographical data about the Watergate personnel. But she also wrote this in it: The significance of the Watergate Affair is that every element essential 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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