Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] rather than financially imposed by external global market forces.’ I was talking to a City source yesterday (one who is strongly opposed to the investment bankers “soft coup” of Westminster and Whitehall). He said that under New Labour, H.M. Treasury had been “utterly captured” by the investment banking industry. He said it had happened […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] absolute monarchy similar to Louis XIV’s France, and replaced him with the Protestant William III, respectful of the British Constitution and its ancient liberties, in a bloodless coup. In fact the ejection of James was prelude to a savage little civil war (fought out mostly in Ireland and Scotland) followed by the persecution and […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] psychological warfare campaign intended to inculcate the American rightwing with not only a religious yearning for martial law but also a perverse hunger for an outright military coup in the U.S. – was a buildup to the insurrection of January 6 in case Trump lost what his 2016 campaign advisor Roger Stone characterized as […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] different from Colonel Callan’s cut-throat mercenaries in Angola in the 1970s.4 4 The sanitised public image was tarnished, however, when Sandline were implicated in a bungled military coup plot in Equatorial Guinea linking Simon 43 44 Mann of Executive Outcomes to Mark Thatcher. This should have been seen as an ill omen for future […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. He sees apparent successes in Oman (the SAS); Iran (the SIS-CIA coup) – but with disastrous long-term consequences; and Indonesia in 1965 – if involvement in the massacre of half a million people can be regarded as a […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the continuities from Thatcher to Major. Now, there is no doubt that the Major government helped to embed the Thatcherite settlement – for example by administering the coup de grâce to the coal miners with its pit closure programme, privatising the railways and sustaining the ‘two-nations’ scapegoating strategy started under its predecessor. At the […]