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 […]

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 […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? Or this. When arriving for the well-trailed and hugely publicised meeting with […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] was ‘contrary to international convention’. See Malcolm Atkin, Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939-1945 (Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, 2015) p. 7. 11 8 the UK. The coup de grace, trumping Greig’s remarks in July, comes two days later via the Duchess of Kent: ‘. . . the Duchess of Kent and Zoia walked […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] for strategic thinking, no interest in learning from his mistakes, a non-existent attention span’ so that his attempts to steal the 2020 election, including ‘the deadly QAnon Coup attempt of January 6’, failed. Trump thankfully ‘was inept, and terrible at implementing his impulses’. (pp. 20-21) The revised edition of The Useful Idiot certainly repays […]

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 […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] and Oleg Kerensky, a noted bridge engineer. Oleg Kerensky was the son of Alexander Kerensky, briefly Prime Minister of Russia in 1917, until ousted in a Bolshevik coup. T. Dan Smith actually began his political career in the Revolutionary Communist Party – a significant UK Trotskyist group – with Gerry Healy, Ted Grant et […]

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