[…] Quoted at . 5 6 Nixon’s ‘personal advertising agency’. Hougan’s work in Secret Agenda was elaborated a little by Len Colodny and Robert Gettling in their Silent Coup (reviewed in Lobster 26) and a bit more in Phil Stanford’s White House Call Girl (reviewed in Lobster 68 at ). The one item the author […]
[PDF file]: […] she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? 1 Climbing the Bookshelves This, remember, is not some publicity naif. She […]
[…] she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? 1 Climbing the Bookshelves This, remember, is not some publicity naif. She […]
[PDF file]: […] psychological warfare campaign intended to inculcate the American rightwing with not only a religious yearning for martial law but also a perverse hunger for an outright military coup in the U.S. – was a buildup to the insurrection of January 6 in case Trump lost what his 2016 campaign advisor Roger Stone characterized as […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] different from Colonel Callan’s cut-throat mercenaries in Angola in the 1970s.4 4 The sanitised public image was tarnished, however, when Sandline were implicated in a bungled military coup plot in Equatorial Guinea linking Simon 43 44 Mann of Executive Outcomes to Mark Thatcher. This should have been seen as an ill omen for future […]
[PDF file]: […] given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. He sees apparent successes in Oman (the SAS); Iran (the SIS-CIA coup) – but with disastrous long-term consequences; and Indonesia in 1965 – if involvement in the massacre of half a million people can be regarded as a […]
[PDF file]: […] the continuities from Thatcher to Major. Now, there is no doubt that the Major government helped to embed the Thatcherite settlement – for example by administering the coup de grâce to the coal miners with its pit closure programme, privatising the railways and sustaining the ‘two-nations’ scapegoating strategy started under its predecessor. At the […]
