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 […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] the criminal world were also part of the staybehind force. These underworld members were loyal to the right-wing cause and, importantly, should senior figures see an outright coup d’état necessary in the event of a militant Labour win at election, they were well outside of government control. Which is what Peter Sanderson described in […]

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[…] the public £23 billion. See . 60 The first one is ‘Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror’ at . 61 ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond’ at or 62 24 power ecosystem’ of the USA which encouraged Ukraine towards that end. The climax […]

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

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] the criminal world were also part of the staybehind force. These underworld members were loyal to the right-wing cause and, importantly, should senior figures see an outright coup d’état necessary in the even of a militant Labour win at election, they were well outside of government control. Which is what Peter Sanderson described in […]

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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 […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] loosely, but Get In provides plenty of evidence of clandestine activity, with the aim of deceiving the membership of the Labour Party and ultimately achieving a constitutional coup. The key player in this conspiracy was the man we have now heard so much about, the alleged nemesis of Sue Gray as Starmer’s chief of […]

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