[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] build an absolute monarchy similar to the one evident in the France of Louis XIV. The Whigs used the power they won through what was essentially a coup d’état to build the Empire and enormously expand their own fortunes in the process. They dominated governments, challenged only by another significant group of aristocrats, the […]
[PDF file]: […] beautifully demonstrated by the appointment of Jared Lane as an adviser in the US Justice Department. Lane was one of those arrested after the failed 6 January coup, but pardoned by Trump before he came to trial. He was among those who broke into the Senate and was filmed calling the police Nazis and […]
