Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: a substitute for imperialism (New York: […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] and the growth of the PR industry. And these were done straight. The programme missed a lot of tricks. There was much discussion of the talk of coup plotting in the mid 1970s yet it didn’t mention or, better, show the discussions about a coup carried in The Times. It talked about […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] planned and executed by the CIA and British SIS). ‘The document, which remains classified, discloses the pivotal role British intelligence officials played in initialing and planning the coup, and it shows that Washington and London shared an interest in maintaining the West’s control over Iranian oil…The operation was the blueprint for a succession of […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] Before he could speak, I opened fire and emptied a magazine into them without anyone realising what I was doing. I changed magazines and gave each the coup de grace. I wanted no survivors to talk of white assassins.’ (p. 122) The following year, with Hind, he assassinated the ZANU leader, Herbert Chitepo and […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] if true – I am unable to decide. Since the Pentagon has control of most things which affect its well-being, why would they bother with a formal coup?’ As I make abundantly clear in my book (e.g. pp. 225-26, citing the 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 38, 326, and Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies, p. […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] parts of Africa, it does not follow that Goldsmith, Birley, Rowland and others gave up their strategic and economic interests on the continent. Note that the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was allegedly funded by Ely Calil, a one time associate of Sir James Goldsmith and Mark Birley, and according to its […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] bloody strife’ (p. 35). Saddam Hussein joined a failed Ba’athist conspiracy in 1959 to assassinate President Quasim, who had gained power the year before in a nationalist coup that killed the Iraqi royal family and the prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein’s faction of the […]