The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] with Peter Dale 3 4 The first issue of this can be seen at 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 […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. […]

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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, […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] The Guardian’s sister paper, the Manchester Evening News, announced his candidature in glowing terms: 7 8 9 10 11 12 ‘His appointment would be considered a major coup for the city, with the university at the heart of the strategic vision for Manchester and its position on the science corridor.’1 3 This was not […]

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 […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] changed the course of the war. Hitler’s original starting date for Operation Barbarossa had been 15 May. It was put back to 22 June after a Britishinspired coup in Belgrade (27 March 1941) installed an anti-Hitler regime, necessitating a German preliminary assault in the Balkans. It seems reasonable to conclude that, if the Germans […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] too much credit in the system, the Bank of England, on their behalf, would put the interest rates up. What a truly wonderful racket! It was a coup by the Bank of England – on behalf of the clearing banks in particular and the City in general. Having persuaded the Tories to reintroduce ‘freedom’ […]

Pisces Moon Valentine review text

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, […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the LIFG in an attempt to assassinate Gaddafi, an operation initially revealed by former MI5 officer, David Shayler. At the time MI6 handed over money for the coup attempt, the LIFG was an affiliate of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, and LIFG leaders had various connections to his terror network.’7 Another source, Intel Today,8 quotes […]

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 […]

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