The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the New Statesman recently. Pond’s essay is a good example of the sophisticated end of the good guys/bad guys position;40 and she makes no reference to the coup run there by the Americans and their local allies.41 One minor difference between Cold War 2 and this one is the attitude of the New Statesman. […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hope it conveys some sense of what a significant piece of work this is. ‘In 1949, the CIA overthrew then Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli in its first-ever coup d’etat and replaced him with a police chief who promptly approved the pipeline route across Syrian territory. The stakes were huge: guaranteed American transportation of Saudi […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

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[…] Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond’ at or 44 See, for example, the long analysis by Ivan Katchanovski, at . 45 or 46 […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was being used by DNC staffers to book hookers.2 The ‘plumbers’ were after dirt. This theme was reworked a little in Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin’s Silent Coup: The Removal of Richard Nixon (1991) and this book is a further elaboration of the hooker theme, based round the author’s acquisition of the phone book […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Axis Tripartite Pact (Germany, Italy and Japan), something that was widely opposed by significant elements within the Yugoslav army. With British approval and support, these staged a coup in Belgrade two days later, establishing a firmly pro-Allied government. Prince Paul was removed from power and Peter II, 17 years of age, declared King and […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as Jacob Rees-Mogg (co-founder and co-owner of the hedge fund, Somerset Capital Management) and Kwasi Kwarteng.23 This group has used Brexit to stage a political and economic coup, as a result of which Britain will (so the perpetrators hope) shake off the remains of industrial capitalism and embrace a future supplying ‘business, technology and […]

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[…] Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond’ at or 31 See, for example, the long analysis by Ivan Katchanovski, at . 32 or 33 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] site. For example, there is a recent post by the site’s main man, Professor Michel Chossudovsky, ‘The Covid “Pandemic”: Destroying People’s Lives. Engineered Economic Depression. Global ” Coup d’Etat”?’2 I scrolled through that and came across this: ‘The March 11 2020 Lockdown project uses lies and deception to ultimately impose a Worldwide totalitarian regime, […]

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