[…] Takeover’, at is notable for an intelligible account of CDOs and CDSs and his view of what has happened since the crash as a kind of financial coup. This view is also held by Simon Johnson in his ‘The Quiet Coup’. See note 16. Michael Lewis is the author of Liars Poker, about the […]
[…] materials. The Nation review was generally favourable, with the exception of references to a chapter entitled ‘Dallas and Moscow’ – ‘… according to KGB analysts, an anti-Soviet coup d’etat had in fact occurred, “organized by a circle of reactionary monopolists in league with pro-fascist groups of the US with the object of strengthening the […]
[…] h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: a substitute for imperialism (New York: […]
[…] and the growth of the PR industry. And these were done straight. The programme missed a lot of tricks. There was much discussion of the talk of coup plotting in the mid 1970s yet it didn’t mention or, better, show the discussions about a coup carried in The Times. It talked about […]
[…] and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the Irish […]
[…] is that it has been prepared at least to encourage regulatory and legal (though not democratic) checks on its excesses. And all this has happened because a coup d’etat was mounted, scarcely registered by the wider population, within a secondary part of the total system – a political party – one that breached the […]
MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more
[…] Acland. In those days the ILP was still a force to be reckoned with on the left of the Labour Party and Smith’s move was quite a coup for Common Wealth. But as the cold war developed in the late 40’s Smith’s anti-Stalinism moved him sharply to right and he became fiercely anti-Soviet. Hulton […]
[…] virtually nil. Weiner also shows the Agency always lied to the politicians and the President, nominally its bosses, and was routinely involved in assassination in its various coup plots. So: incomplete and partial, yes; but also full of fascinating bits and pieces. In any other period of the history of the American empire this […]
[…] physically, he tells us. Galloway also goes back a long way with Dennis MacShane, the Foreign Office minister who denounced Hugo Chavez during the short-lived and US-backed coup attempt on the Venezuelan leader. ‘Now I know a lot about Dennis MacShane,’ Galloway writes rather threateningly, ‘including the fact that he is not Dennis MacShane. […]
