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[…] 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 […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] publishing Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump (2018), Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s ‘Witch Hunt’ (2019) and Coup D’Etat: Exposing Deep Treason and the Plan to Re-Elect President Trump (2020). Forthcoming he has an ‘exposé’ of the neo-Marxist, anti-capitalist global warming hoax, The Truth […]

The economic crisis continues

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[PDF file]: […] Telegraph 24 May, the UK figure was given as 82.5pc of GDP. Page 17 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 ‘It is as if there has been a silent coup d’état – instead of the taxpayers owning the banks, the banks now seem to own the taxpayers. They have been given access to the present and […]

The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

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[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 […]

Misc reviews

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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 […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[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 […]

Blair and Israel

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[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 […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

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[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 […]

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