[…] the House of Lords — doesn’t start until January…… 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] absolute monarchy similar to Louis XIV’s France, and replaced him with the Protestant William III, respectful of the British Constitution and its ancient liberties, in a bloodless coup. In fact the ejection of James was prelude to a savage little civil war (fought out mostly in Ireland and Scotland) followed by the persecution and […]
[…] Quoted at . 5 6 Nixon’s ‘personal advertising agency’. Hougan’s work in Secret Agenda was elaborated a little by Len Colodny and Robert Gettling in their Silent Coup (reviewed in Lobster 26) and a bit more in Phil Stanford’s White House Call Girl (reviewed in Lobster 68 at ). The one item the author […]
[PDF file]: […] different from Colonel Callan’s cut-throat mercenaries in Angola in the 1970s.4 4 The sanitised public image was tarnished, however, when Sandline were implicated in a bungled military coup plot in Equatorial Guinea linking Simon 43 44 Mann of Executive Outcomes to Mark Thatcher. This should have been seen as an ill omen for future […]
[PDF file]: […] psychological warfare campaign intended to inculcate the American rightwing with not only a religious yearning for martial law but also a perverse hunger for an outright military coup in the U.S. – was a buildup to the insurrection of January 6 in case Trump lost what his 2016 campaign advisor Roger Stone characterized as […]
[PDF file]: […] book – though in May 1981 Livingstone could perhaps be forgiven for missing the event given that he was then fully occupied (at County Hall) in the coup that removed Andrew Mackintosh as leader of the GLC. The reader may also reflect that it is curious that Livingstone, Abbot and their little band of […]
[PDF file]: […] given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. He sees apparent successes in Oman (the SAS); Iran (the SIS-CIA coup) – but with disastrous long-term consequences; and Indonesia in 1965 – if involvement in the massacre of half a million people can be regarded as a […]
[PDF file]: […] the continuities from Thatcher to Major. Now, there is no doubt that the Major government helped to embed the Thatcherite settlement – for example by administering the coup de grâce to the coal miners with its pit closure programme, privatising the railways and sustaining the ‘two-nations’ scapegoating strategy started under its predecessor. At the […]
[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 […]
