[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Lobster. 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 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 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 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 […]
[…] New Statesman recently. Pond’s essay is a good example of the sophisticated end of the good guys/bad guys position;4 0 and she makes no reference to the coup run there by the Americans and their local allies.4 1 One minor difference between Cold War 2 and this one is the attitude of the New […]
[PDF file]: […] Quoted at . 5 6 Nixon’s ‘personal advertising agency’. Hougan’s work in Secret Agenda was elaborated a little by Len Colodny and Robert Gettling in their Silent Coup (reviewed in Lobster 26) and a bit more in Phil Stanford’s White House Call Girl (reviewed in Lobster 68 at ). The one item the author […]
[PDF file]: […] country and successfully routed the revolutionary Red Menace both within and without. Not only were the miners crushed, but Rupert Murdoch, with Thatcher’s blessing, staged his ‘audacious coup’ at Wapping. Murdoch’s long-standing pernicious influence on British politics through the Thatcher, Blair and Cameron years does not seem to even interest – let alone trouble […]
