View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the criminal world were also part of the staybehind force. These underworld members were loyal to the right-wing cause and, importantly, should senior figures see an outright coup d’état necessary in the event of a militant Labour win at election, they were well outside of government control. Which is what Peter Sanderson described in […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] king’s death and the ascent of his son, Savang Vatthana, who did not possess the same amount of shakti/shiva “good luck” as his dad – staged a coup on 25 December 1959. A military junta under fascist Colonel Phoumi Nosavan took charge of the government. Under the guidance of his crazy CIA case officer, […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] had with Peter Mandelson regarding Toynbee’s attack. Mandelson cheered him up when he told him that being attacked in the Guardian by Polly Toynbee was a real coup: ‘I can think of nothing that would more highly commend you to the Prime Minister.’ (pp. 65, 66, 69). As MacShane observes elsewhere, as far as […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] with ‘employment opportunities in hotels, banks, radio and TV stations, and casinos’. Ultimately this failed due to extensive opposition, and Pierson would subsequently be implicated in a coup attempt in Dominica in 1981. See . they had diversified their interests (the UK part of which – the Firth Cleveland Group – was sold in […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the criminal world were also part of the staybehind force. These underworld members were loyal to the right-wing cause and, importantly, should senior figures see an outright coup d’état necessary in the even of a militant Labour win at election, they were well outside of government control. Which is what Peter Sanderson described in […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 Do […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] loosely, but Get In provides plenty of evidence of clandestine activity, with the aim of deceiving the membership of the Labour Party and ultimately achieving a constitutional coup. The key player in this conspiracy was the man we have now heard so much about, the alleged nemesis of Sue Gray as Starmer’s chief of […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the public £23 billion. See . 60 The first one is ‘Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror’ at . 61 ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond’ at or 62 24 power ecosystem’ of the USA which encouraged Ukraine towards that end. The climax […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] newsletter called Parapolitics USA.4 A series of books followed, some co-authored with Peter Dale Scott. He’s still writing. A piece of his, on the barely reported US-sponsored coup in Honduras, appeared recently on the Consortium site.5 Bill Blum has been at it nearly as long and recently he announced in his e-mail bulletin, Anti-Empire […]

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