Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] clearly ‘a covert operation . . . a false-flag attack orchestrated by elements within and associated with the U.S. state’. The 9/11 attack, he asserted, was a coup d’etat, but one that was both ‘domestic and international’, where there had been ‘a violent takeover by neoconservative fascist elements in the “national security” apparatus of […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[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 68 (Winter 2014)
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[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 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] had with Peter Mandelson regarding Toynbee’s attack. Mandelson cheered him up when he told him that being attacked in the Guardian by Polly Toynbee was a real coup: ‘I can think of nothing that would more highly commend you to the Prime Minister.’ (pp. 65, 66, 69). As MacShane observes elsewhere, as far as […]