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 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. […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] as Jacob Rees-Mogg (co-founder and co-owner of the hedge fund, Somerset Capital Management) and Kwasi Kwarteng.23 This group has used Brexit to stage a political and economic coup, as a result of which Britain will (so the perpetrators hope) shake off the remains of industrial capitalism and embrace a future supplying ‘business, technology and […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] contracts and the company’s accounts did not match the massive secret turnover. When MD Gerald James queried these strange goings on, he was ousted in a boardroom coup organised by Stephan Kock, an MI6 agent placed on the board by Cuckney and MI6 to oversee Astra’s illegal contracts. Too late, however: the secret was […]