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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[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 […]