Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

Lobster Issue

[…] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] *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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] *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)

[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

Lobster Issue

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] there what I wrote in Lobster 32. The first one is ‘Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror’ at . 80 ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond’ at or 81 See, for example, the long analysis by Ivan Katchanovski, at . 82 28 the […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] see positive changes. Changes possibly, but changes for the worse. It was no coincidence that the Turkish criminal entity’s operation centered on Chicago.’ The annual Turkish military coup plot story O K, I’m being facetious, and the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Turkish paramilitary alliances deserve better, but it does sometimes feel […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] as ISIS but conveniently did not post them on-line. Despite his collaboration with the British secret state, Wilson was himself the victim of various smears, plots and coup proposals in which MI5 officers were intimately involved. Wilson was convinced that the South African secret service, BOSS, was also involved. He was right: they were […]

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