Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] etc. 12. Benton writes thrillers – bad ones. One of his, A Single Monstrous Act (1976), spends most its time describing a revolutionary Trotskyist sect planning a coup in Britain (sic). This veneer of sophistication drops off at the end when the KGB is revealed to have been behind things all the time. This […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Sich-14.17 Sich-14 is For simplicity’s sake, this essay uses the term ‘Maidan’ to denote the popular uprisings in Ukraine that began in November 2013. The term ‘ coup’ is used to denote the climax of the uprisings, i.e. the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s President Yanukovich in February 2014. 15 The word ‘Donbas’ denotes Ukraine’s […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Sich-14.17 Sich-14 is For simplicity’s sake, this essay uses the term ‘Maidan’ to denote the popular uprisings in Ukraine that began in November 2013. The term ‘ coup’ is used to denote the climax of the uprisings, i.e. the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s President Yanukovich in February 2014. 15 The word ‘Donbas’ denotes Ukraine’s […]

part 1 best copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Sich-14.17 Sich-14 is For simplicity’s sake, this essay uses the term ‘Maidan’ to denote the popular uprisings in Ukraine that began in November 2013. The term ‘ coup’ is used to denote the climax of the uprisings, i.e. the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s President Yanukovich in February 2014. 15 The word ‘Donbas’ denotes Ukraine’s […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Sich-14.17 Sich-14 is For simplicity’s sake, this essay uses the term ‘Maidan’ to denote the popular uprisings in Ukraine that began in November 2013. The term ‘ coup’ is used to denote the climax of the uprisings, i.e. the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s President Yanukovich in February 2014. 15 The word ‘Donbas’ denotes Ukraine’s […]

Garrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] Sich-14.17 Sich-14 is For simplicity’s sake, this essay uses the term ‘Maidan’ to denote the popular uprisings in Ukraine that began in November 2013. The term ‘ coup’ is used to denote the climax of the uprisings, i.e. the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s President Yanukovich in February 2014. 15 The word ‘Donbas’ denotes Ukraine’s […]

GArrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] Sich-14.17 Sich-14 is For simplicity’s sake, this essay uses the term ‘Maidan’ to denote the popular uprisings in Ukraine that began in November 2013. The term ‘ coup’ is used to denote the climax of the uprisings, i.e. the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s President Yanukovich in February 2014. 15 The word ‘Donbas’ denotes Ukraine’s […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] an embarrassing setback with his involvement in what became known as ‘the Hilton Assignment’. In the autumn of the previous year, Colonel Gaddafi had led a bloodless coup against the ruling royal family in Lybia. An essential part of Stirling’s counter-coup plan was the freeing of political prisoners from Tripoli jail – an insalubrious […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] Patel and his fellow cohorts in Donald Trump’s inner circle suggest. The actual danger is that the man who tried – however incompetently – to stage a coup on 6 January 2021 has been re-elected to the Presidency. An openly authoritarian, seemingly quasi-fascist, regime has thus been installed. It is safe to assume that […]

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