[…] it is.’ (pp. 59-60) Another outstanding example of this genre also used by Deacon is Frederick Forsyth’s 1984 The Fourth Protocol, in which, via an internal party coup, Ken Livingstone becomes Prime Minister, supplanting Prime Minister Neil Kinnock. This is achieved via a rerun of the political coup which made Livingstone leader of the […]
[…] the hyping of terrorism, the Patriot Act, neo-cons, the religious right the new American Reich which Bush Jnr. has fronted since the Republicans ran their little coup in Florida. All entirely acceptable but rather familiar and mostly unsourced. It might get him run out of town in Middle America but for readers of […]
[…] Watergate’ (June 16), a light gloss on this book. When the programme finished I went to the back issues of Lobster to re-read the review of Silent Coup, and discovered that there wasn’t one. I now can’t remember why this impressive and important book didn’t get any attention in Lobster: I read it for […]
[PDF file]: The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973 Scott Newton September 11 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the first 9/11. This was the coup in Chile against the left–wing Popular Unity coalition government of President Salvador Allende, who had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military […]
[…] apparent that he had already revised one of the key sections in his book, the account of Captain Ramsay MP, the Right Club, Nordic League and the ‘coup’ being planned in 1939/40. While in his book Thurlow accepts the received version that the ‘coup’ was nothing more than a pretext on MI5’s part to […]
[…] Jones goes to Cuba In January 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista dictatorship, and seized power in Cuba. Land reforms followed within a few months of the coup, alienating foreign investors and the rich. By Summer, therefore, Cuba was in the midst of a low-intensity counter-revolution, with sabotage operations mounted from within and outside […]
[…] from all posts in the trade union movement of individuals with a record of past or present membership of Communist organisations’. (2) Later in the year, when coup speculation was more intense, the NF made clear that theirs was no ‘doctrinaire support of parliamentary government as an end in itself’, and that their answer […]
[…] transformed an old corporatist party engaged in industrial class war into a responsive modern European party of the democratic socialist Left. What actually happened was a ‘ coup du parti’ that chose immediate power over long-term sustainability. The democratic reform story is for another time. This memoir is only part of the story, of […]
[…] Takeover’, at is notable for an intelligible account of CDOs and CDSs and his view of what has happened since the crash as a kind of financial coup. This view is also held by Simon Johnson in his ‘The Quiet Coup’. See note 16. Michael Lewis is the author of Liars Poker, about the […]
[…] Christian Social Union party, is an important group in international parapolitical manipulation. Active in Latin America for the Contras,(3) supporting Mobuto in Zaire, involved in the Fiji coup in 1987, it was caught diverting state development aid from Germany into right-wing party coffers in Ecuador in the same year. Strauss and CSU were the […]
