[PDF file]: […] with North Korea, Iran and Russia. Instead, we are left with the thought that the couple of weeks of intrigue that ‘did’ for Eden were essentially a coup carried out within UK politics by an establishment that regards cleaving to the US as an essential ritual. Was this the first overt change carried out […]
[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.38 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]
[PDF file]: […] media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 general election. Starmer had been a member of the 2016 Shadow Cabinet ‘chicken coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s […]
Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
[PDF file]: […] just in the sense that it brought about a shift in the British political economy. It also seems to have had some of the qualities of a coup d’état, in that since that time we have been unable to alter the trajectory of the state, economy and society, whose journey to the market order […]
[PDF file]: […] the Sunday Telegraph 25 July 1999 that Blair tried to make Levy a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). This would have been a stunning coup by the Israelis but it was resisted by the Foreign Secretary, at the behest, presumably, of the traditionally pro-Arab FCO. Instead Levy became Blair’s personal envoy […]
[PDF file]: […] see positive changes. Changes possibly, but changes for the worse. It was no coincidence that the Turkish criminal entity’s operation centered on Chicago.’ The annual Turkish military coup plot story O K, I’m being facetious, and the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Turkish paramilitary alliances deserve better, but it does sometimes feel […]
[PDF file]: […] as ISIS but conveniently did not post them on-line. Despite his collaboration with the British secret state, Wilson was himself the victim of various smears, plots and coup proposals in which MI5 officers were intimately involved. Wilson was convinced that the South African secret service, BOSS, was also involved. He was right: they were […]
[PDF file]: […] taking office. In 1964, Lacerda would mount yet another propaganda blitz, this time against Quadros’s successor, President João Goulart.30 Lacerda soon became personally involved in the military coup of 31 March, which was supported by the CIA.31 Lacerda, then, was no saloon-bar braggart or armchair general, but a seasoned agitator, propagandist, and activist with […]
