Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] note 29. not indicated in this stable patient. ‘Good surgeons know how to operate, better ones when to operate, and the best when not to operate.’ 38 Coup d’œil Thomas asserts ‘One can read at a cursory glance the injuries and operations a person has had.’ The fact he missed two small punctuate scars […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] not shy from contact with Black Americans either. In 1952, returning from a sojourn in the US, he stood for President but then seized power in a coup that pre-empted elections. New Dealism was dead in the US and hence opposed by the US throughout the Western Hemisphere. Batista’s return to power meant joining […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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)
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