[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] solution was to avoid Yugoslavia becoming embroiled in Churchill’s adventures.38 Two days after aligning Yugoslavia with Germany, Italy and Japan, Prince Paul was overthrown by a UK-backed coup. Many commentators regard this as a deliberate action taken to derail peace moves of the UK opposition, which were becoming significant. Hitler retaliated immediately. Operation Barbarossa […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] clear class bias of his administration’. Moreover, ‘the most active and violent part of Trump’s base is coming from a segment of the middle class’ the attempted coup of January 6, 2021 was spearheaded by members of the middle class’. He quotes one study that revealed that of the 501 people arrested over the […]
[PDF file]: […] simply not reported or misreported. Blum makes clear – what should be obvious – that the Soviet Union was not a party to a single war or coup from 1945 to 1989 and that the US government knew this. Page 68 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 Much of this early action took place when John […]
[PDF file]: […] that landed him in prisons for the rest of his long life? Or was the daring 900-mile flight on Saturday, 10 May 1941,1 part of a failed coup d’état by certain well-known high Tories, attempting a ceasefire with Nazi Germany by removing Churchill as war leader? The facts about May 10, just six weeks […]
[…] 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 […]
