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 […]

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 […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

View from

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[…] smidgeon, indirectly.21 A page later he hits his stride. It is also important to note that like the NeoCons, all of the key figures in the Ukrainian coup, although supposedly Nazis and following the white supremicist ideology of Hitler (a Rothschild) and other such scum ‘Inside RFK Jr’s conflicted attempt to rid America of […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] 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 This note continues at the foot of the next page. […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

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[…] smidgeon, indirectly.2 A page later he hits his stride. It is also important to note that like the NeoCons, all of the key figures in the Ukrainian coup, although supposedly Nazis and following the 1 2 See . 1 white supremicist ideology of Hitler (a Rothschild) and other such scum as Bandera, are in […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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