Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[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)
[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 81 (Summer 2021)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[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)
[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 82 (Winter 2021)
[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 […]
