View from the Bridge

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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’.4 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] or for the immense grammatical howlers such as ‘My Cameo Appearance on BBC Today programme, to discuss the Rhodes statue, not the Virus Panic’.40 (emphasis added) Bungled coup joke (stolen from a wag on Twitter) A spoof Yelp-type review of mercenary company ‘Silvercorp USA’:41 ‘Friendly service, clean office but got caught while planning a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] class more palatable. With the support of the Democratic Party, the liberal media, academia and social media platforms in Silicon Valley, demonize the victims of the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with those who embrace identity politics, whether they are on Wall Street or in the Pentagon. They […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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’.66 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’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] unpredictable outcome of a CIA operation that, in the simplest terms, tripped on its own shoelaces.’6 3 His theory was amplified by authors of the best-seller Silent Coup and endorsed on the speaker circuit by Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy.6 4 They hold that when details of a Columbia Plaza prostitution ring became known to […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[PDF file]: […] Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 Presidential election trying to enlist the support […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Generals made clear, repeatedly, that they would not countenance Trump trying to overthrow the election result. They refused to be a part of the kind of coup Trump was clearly plotting – which would have put in place an authoritarian regime modelled on those he so openly admired. If they had made it […]

View from Bridge

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[…] https://inews.co.uk/news/world/desperate-prevent-putin-invasion-ukrainebaroness-catherine-ashton-2124097 41 or 39 or 40 attacks against the majority-ethnic Russian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, 16 WHEN JOURNALISTS ACT AS STATE PROPAGANDISTS Peter Oborne https://declassifieduk.org/when-journalists-act-as-statepropagandists/ and coup stuff https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/on-the-influence-of-neo-nazism-inu k r a i n e / ? eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=9348b1cb-9ef6-463d-896c-81950c3f3b9d www.reuters.com /investigates/special-report/usa-election-montgomery/ The man behind Trump World’s myth of rigged voting machines 1980 UK third […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] was Owen Jones on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with […]

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