Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] new round of NATO enlargement, which would include Ukraine and Georgia. Ukraine looks West The dissolution of the USSR began on 18 August 1991, following an abortive coup against Gorbachev by Communist Party and KGB elements anxious to preserve the Union. Gorbachev sat it out in his holiday dacha on the Crimea and was […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] mile from the White House, what chance had a life-long critic of US foreign policy – his children’s Chilean-born mother was a refugee from the Kissinger-backed Pinochet coup – who had landed the task of leading a party of diminished and largely demoralised members after two general election defeats?3 This perspective is not one […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the New Statesman recently. Pond’s essay is a good example of the sophisticated end of the good guys/bad guys position;40 and she makes no reference to the coup run there by the Americans and their local allies.41 One minor difference between Cold War 2 and this one is the attitude of the New Statesman. […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Axis Tripartite Pact (Germany, Italy and Japan), something that was widely opposed by significant elements within the Yugoslav army. With British approval and support, these staged a coup in Belgrade two days later, establishing a firmly pro-Allied government. Prince Paul was removed from power and Peter II, 17 years of age, declared King and […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] was being used by DNC staffers to book hookers.2 The ‘plumbers’ were after dirt. This theme was reworked a little in Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin’s Silent Coup: The Removal of Richard Nixon (1991) and this book is a further elaboration of the hooker theme, based round the author’s acquisition of the phone book […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] hope it conveys some sense of what a significant piece of work this is. ‘In 1949, the CIA overthrew then Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli in its first-ever coup d’etat and replaced him with a police chief who promptly approved the pipeline route across Syrian territory. The stakes were huge: guaranteed American transportation of Saudi […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond’ at or 31 See, for example, the long analysis by Ivan Katchanovski, at . 32 or 33 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] site. For example, there is a recent post by the site’s main man, Professor Michel Chossudovsky, ‘The Covid “Pandemic”: Destroying People’s Lives. Engineered Economic Depression. Global ” Coup d’Etat”?’2 I scrolled through that and came across this: ‘The March 11 2020 Lockdown project uses lies and deception to ultimately impose a Worldwide totalitarian regime, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] rather than financially imposed by external global market forces.’ I was talking to a City source yesterday (one who is strongly opposed to the investment bankers “soft coup” of Westminster and Whitehall). He said that under New Labour, H.M. Treasury had been “utterly captured” by the investment banking industry. He said it had happened […]

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