The Christian Right Revisited

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 […]

The Solipsist Revolution: Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] had been an ugly local skirmish, with the real action taking place through the court system, whereas the events of 6 January 2021 were indisputably an attempted coup d’etat, instigated by outgoing president Donald Trump.3 It only failed due to a lack of organisation, and an ultimatum delivered in the strongest constitutional terms by […]

Inside the Trump Administration

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 […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

Lobster Issue

[…] had been an ugly local skirmish, with the real action taking place through the court system, whereas the events of 6 January 2021 were indisputably an attempted coup d’etat, instigated by outgoing president Donald Trump.3 It only failed due to a lack of organisation, and an ultimatum delivered in the strongest constitutional terms by […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

Lobster Issue

[…] had been an ugly local skirmish, with the real action taking place through the court system, whereas the events of 6 January 2021 were indisputably an attempted coup d’etat, instigated by outgoing president Donald Trump.3 It only failed due to a lack of organisation, and an ultimatum delivered in the strongest constitutional terms by […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

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 […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

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 […]

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