Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] unpredictable outcome of a CIA operation that, in the simplest terms, tripped on its own shoelaces.’6 3 His theory was amplified by authors of the best-seller Silent Coup and endorsed on the speaker circuit by Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy.6 4 They hold that when details of a Columbia Plaza prostitution ring became known to […]

View from Bridge

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[…] 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 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

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[…] 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

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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