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[…] 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 […]

The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

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 […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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 […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of the US-sponsored coup d’état were deep and far reaching. For the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, ‘its triumph confirmed the belief….that covert operations offered a safe, inexpensive substitute for […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.26 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] . ‘The sector gave more than £60m to Boris Johnson’s party over ten years, new analysis by Transparency International shows.’ 25 10 Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.26 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.17 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.17 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

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