[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] might this have happened? She would still have won the 1987 election, and would still have introduced the Poll Tax, which Tebbitt also supported. When the anti-Thatcher coup happened, he might have stood, but would he have beaten John Major and/or Michael Heseltine? This must be debatable because, on balance, either Major or Heseltine […]
[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 […]
[…] 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.23 ‘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 […]
[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 […]
[…] New Statesman recently. Pond’s essay is a good example of the sophisticated end of the good guys/bad guys position;4 0 and she makes no reference to the coup run there by the Americans and their local allies.4 1 One minor difference between Cold War 2 and this one is the attitude of the New […]
[…] 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.23 ‘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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] – might want answered. In a nutshell, there is ample evidence that what can be truly described as a conspiracy took place, which gave birth to a coup. The right in the party’s only response now is ‘the left hasn’t learnt any lessons. It’s time to move on’. The problem for the triumphant right […]
