The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] and is largely a rehashing and enlargement of the previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] than experience.’ 22 Allen Dulles visited Rome in mid-August 1953, ostensibly for a holiday, but really so that he could study cable traffic concerning the ongoing Iranian coup. He spent that time in the US Embassy’s operations room with Clare and Gerald Miller, leaving his wife, Clover, to drift around the Italian capital on […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

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 […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] mile from the White House, what chance had a life-long critic of US foreign policy – his children’s Chilean-born mother was a refugee from the Kissinger-backed Pinochet coup – who had landed the task of leading a party of diminished and largely demoralised members after two general election defeats?3 This perspective is not one […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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)

[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 […]

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 […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

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