Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] relations. 16 25 February 2015 at Yet Putin’s actions in Ukraine were not taken until the overthrow of a democratically elected pro-Russian regime in Kiev, in a coup d’etat in which, Moscow contends, an American hand was clearly visible. Not only was John McCain in Kiev’s Maidan Square egging on the crowds that drove […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] them as ‘agents’. This makes him (or her but usually him) look good, justifies his/her overseas posting and enables him/her to claim some more expenses. A right-wing coup A meeting held between Lord Mountbatten of Burma, several senior journalists and government advisers has long been the foundation for claims that a plot existed in […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] are only two things which raised my eyebrows. The first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which shows that JFK was discussing discussing the […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] on 9/11 is that we didn’t have a strategy, we didn’t have bipartisan agreement, we didn’t have American understanding of it, and we had instead a policy coup in this country – a coup – a policy coup. Some hard-nose people took over the direction of American policy and they never bothered to inform […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] here on a site put up by A. J. (Allan) Weberman: . Weberman’s name probably rings a bell. He was the coauthor of the JFK assassination book Coup d’état in America back in 1975 that, if I’m not mistaken, was the first use of the term coup d’état in connection with the assassination and […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] a group alleged to be linked to ‘AQIM’. A month later, the Pentagon cancelled Flintlock. In March, junior officers in the Mali Army mutinied, leading to a coup led by Captain Amadou Sanogo.5 2 After a talk at Brown University, an African speaker asked AFRICOM Commander General Ham: ‘The United States Africa Command was […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] expansion of clandestine military operations in both hostile and friendly countries. Popular Congressman, Ron Paul, has openly stated in recent months that there has been a CIA coup in America! Daniel Ellsberg, who says the coup began on 9-11, has said that Obama is deceiving the American public as Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon did […]