Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] us that David Stirling’s GB75 was ‘a strike-breaking force that included all sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] newsletter called Parapolitics USA.4 A series of books followed, some co-authored with Peter Dale Scott. He’s still writing. A piece of his, on the barely reported US-sponsored coup in Honduras, appeared recently on the Consortium site.5 Bill Blum has been at it nearly as long and recently he announced in his e-mail bulletin, Anti-Empire […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[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 […]