Shirley Williams

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the House of Lords — doesn’t start until January…… 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 […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] 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 […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[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 […]

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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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 […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] book – though in May 1981 Livingstone could perhaps be forgiven for missing the event given that he was then fully occupied (at County Hall) in the coup that removed Andrew Mackintosh as leader of the GLC. The reader may also reflect that it is curious that Livingstone, Abbot and their little band of […]

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