Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] for strategic thinking, no interest in learning from his mistakes, a non-existent attention span’ so that his attempts to steal the 2020 election, including ‘the deadly QAnon Coup attempt of January 6’, failed. Trump thankfully ‘was inept, and terrible at implementing his impulses’. (pp. 20-21) The revised edition of The Useful Idiot certainly repays […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, the first former colony to achieve independence, and the focus of much of Africa’s rising nationalism. He was eventually removed in a coup in 1966. She has another detailed run though the 1961 death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld but is still unable to say with certainty which state […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] and Oleg Kerensky, a noted bridge engineer. Oleg Kerensky was the son of Alexander Kerensky, briefly Prime Minister of Russia in 1917, until ousted in a Bolshevik coup. T. Dan Smith actually began his political career in the Revolutionary Communist Party – a significant UK Trotskyist group – with Gerry Healy, Ted Grant et […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] files from 1977/8 there is a copy of an FBI report concerning one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] the Russian invasion by nine years. 2014 is when the Donbas oblasts attempted to secede from Ukraine and Russia annexed Crimea, in the immediate aftermath of the coup that deposed president Yanukovich. 29 Centre for Political and Legal Reforms, 29 April 2022. See or (source in Ukrainian). Whether any resulting sentences would have been […]

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[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 […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

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