Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[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 […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as part of ‘the Axis of Evil’, but Iranians were well aware of ‘a history of Western aggression’ against their country, going back to the CIA-SIS sponsored coup of 1953. He makes the point that the US had no problem with the Shah’s nuclear programme (‘the United States gave Iran its first reactor in […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.10 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been feted in Washington, welcomed ‘to the Pentagon with an honor cordon’, even though his corruption was well-known and it was even feared he might stage a coup to seize power for himself. He ‘did little to hide his involvement in drug trafficking’ and, according to an interview with Col. Russell Thaden, the NATO […]

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[…] smidgeon, indirectly.21 A page later he hits his stride. It is also important to note that like the NeoCons, all of the key figures in the Ukrainian coup, although supposedly Nazis and following the white supremicist ideology of Hitler (a Rothschild) and other such scum ‘Inside RFK Jr’s conflicted attempt to rid America of […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hosted a number of confidential meetings between German military and diplomatic figures and British FO advisors. However, the British preference for not removing Hitler via a military coup and keeping him as a reliable anti-Communist instead drove them all to despair, with one, Wolfgang zu Putlitz, memorably commenting ‘…..the English think they are wise […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] files from 1977/8 there is a copy of an FBI report concerning one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] too much credit in the system, the Bank of England, on their behalf, would put the interest rates up. What a truly wonderful racket! It was a coup by the Bank of England – on behalf of the clearing banks in particular and the City in general. Having persuaded the Tories to reintroduce ‘freedom’ […]

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[…] smidgeon, indirectly.2 A page later he hits his stride. It is also important to note that like the NeoCons, all of the key figures in the Ukrainian coup, although supposedly Nazis and following the 1 2 See . 1 white supremicist ideology of Hitler (a Rothschild) and other such scum as Bandera, are in […]

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