A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

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[PDF file]: […] won a general election in 1978, then, the centre of gravity within the PLP may well have been further to the left. Thus, the idea of ‘a coup from the left’ was not an unreasonable deduction. Many considered it possible, including Corbyn’s local colleagues Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler from the other end of […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from one Thomas Wood which began: I wonder if you might be interested in reviewing a novel I have written which […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and much of the hardware, originates from US corporations. There is an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] Asia Times, 5/20/04 Floridagate and then was made head of FEMA . the agency that with Cheney and Rumsfeld Mann, 139; Bamford, 72 had developed “Reagan’s Secret Coup Plans” “Reagan’s Secret Coup Plans” Progressive Review, July 1988 in the 1980s the plans for COG Continuity of Government the plans for an anti-constitutional takeover in […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] 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 […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] Volman trained pro-U.S. cadres for Juan Bosch, the Kennedy administration’s great democratic hope in the Dominican Republic. (Elected president in 1962, Bosch was toppled by a military coup in the fall of 1963. His return to power was blocked in 1965 by President Johnson, who sent thousands of U.S. Marines to occupy the Dominican […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] Zelensky and his inner circle chose malicious compliance with the letter of the lustration law.37 One month after taking office, Zelensky saved Bohdan’s job with a bureaucratic coup de theatre. He formally abolished the title ‘Administration of the President of Ukraine’38 and renamed the existing structure ‘The Office of the President’ instead.39 His job […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] Zelensky and his inner circle chose malicious compliance with the letter of the lustration law.37 One month after taking office, Zelensky saved Bohdan’s job with a bureaucratic coup de theatre. He formally abolished the title ‘Administration of the President of Ukraine’38 and renamed the existing structure ‘The Office of the President’ instead.39 His job […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] Zelensky and his inner circle chose malicious compliance with the letter of the lustration law.37 One month after taking office, Zelensky saved Bohdan’s job with a bureaucratic coup de theatre. He formally abolished the title ‘Administration of the President of Ukraine’38 and renamed the existing structure ‘The Office of the President’ instead.39 His job […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] Zelensky and his inner circle chose malicious compliance with the letter of the lustration law.37 One month after taking office, Zelensky saved Bohdan’s job with a bureaucratic coup de theatre. He formally abolished the title ‘Administration of the President of Ukraine’38 and renamed the existing structure ‘The Office of the President’ instead.39 His job […]

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