Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] not shy from contact with Black Americans either. In 1952, returning from a sojourn in the US, he stood for President but then seized power in a coup that pre-empted elections. New Dealism was dead in the US and hence opposed by the US throughout the Western Hemisphere. Batista’s return to power meant joining […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] hope it conveys some sense of what a significant piece of work this is. ‘In 1949, the CIA overthrew then Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli in its first-ever coup d’etat and replaced him with a police chief who promptly approved the pipeline route across Syrian territory. The stakes were huge: guaranteed American transportation of Saudi […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] was being used by DNC staffers to book hookers.2 The ‘plumbers’ were after dirt. This theme was reworked a little in Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin’s Silent Coup: The Removal of Richard Nixon (1991) and this book is a further elaboration of the hooker theme, based round the author’s acquisition of the phone book […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] site. For example, there is a recent post by the site’s main man, Professor Michel Chossudovsky, ‘The Covid “Pandemic”: Destroying People’s Lives. Engineered Economic Depression. Global ” Coup d’Etat”?’2 I scrolled through that and came across this: ‘The March 11 2020 Lockdown project uses lies and deception to ultimately impose a Worldwide totalitarian regime, […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] as Jacob Rees-Mogg (co-founder and co-owner of the hedge fund, Somerset Capital Management) and Kwasi Kwarteng.23 This group has used Brexit to stage a political and economic coup, as a result of which Britain will (so the perpetrators hope) shake off the remains of industrial capitalism and embrace a future supplying ‘business, technology and […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? 1 Climbing the Bookshelves This, remember, is not some publicity naif. She […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)