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 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] not inspire confidence.33 Thus in the NewsGuard approach to Consortium News: NewsGuard alleges that Consortium News has published “false content” by reporting that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 and that neo-Nazis have significant influence in the country. Fishman took issue with a: “February 2022 article ‘Ukraine: Guides to Reflection,’ asserted, […]
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 […]