[…] or the violence, such that it is, is specifically targeted against political and economic opponents. For example planning to blow up the cabinet as apart of a coup would be seen as political violence but not terrorism. The second main problem lies in the choice of the term ‘British Republic’. Firstly, because many of […]
[…] him to accept an invitation to visit Communist China so that he would be out of the country when our boy, General ‘Uncle Arthur’ Ankrah, staged his coup d’etat, and some months later when a computer we programmed to make astrological computations induced President Sukarno of Indonesia to make various moves which suited our […]
[…] credited with spending millions of dollars on a Fijian grassroots cultural revival which has been a thin cover for the Tankei movement.” (US Involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat in Lobster 14) IDU is producing a magazine, Democracy International (Suite 48, Westminster Palace Garden, London SWIP IRR). The pilot issue appeared a few months […]
[…] NY 14063, USA. According to Jules Archer’s book The Plot To Seize The White House (Hawthorn, NY, 1973), General McArthur was the first choice of a right-wing coup plot hatched by J.P. Morgan and other U.S.industrialists (DuPonts, Rockefellers and Mellons among them) who opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt. McArthur was President Roosevelt’s Military Chief of […]
[…] Healy) ended up adapting to Eurocommunism proclaiming Glasnost the political revolution predicted by Trotsky, etc., while the Spartacists and Sheila Torrence’s Newsline proclaimed the hard-line Stalinists and coup plotters of 1991 as the true Bolsheviks. This had previously been Rosa Luxembourg’s argument against Bornstein in Social Reform or Revolution. On globalisation theory being Stalinist: […]
[…] tribal insurgents. This took place against a backdrop of President Nasser announcing the union of Egypt with Syria (February 1958) and Yemen (March 1958) and a pro-Egyptian coup in Iraq (14 July 1958). The latter event resulted in a speedy US intervention in Lebanon (15 July) and a similar British operation in Jordan (17 […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by … Read more
[…] seems profoundly unlikely to me. These books, with their massive documentation, constitute proof. On the other hand, this is also the story of the most spectacular intelligence coup of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, largely using CPUSA members or sympathisers, the Soviet Union built networks such that by the war’s beginning it had […]
[…] Secretary of the Hanson Group, archetypical at the time of predatory capitalism, agreed to sit on the Advisory Board. This was, quite rightly, regarded as a major coup. Adam Lury, a new wave (of the day) advertising executive and now on the Foreign Policy Centre board, and Bob Tyrrell of the Henley Centre (part […]
[…] Thatcher’s ear that Gorbachev was on the level, and that she could ‘do business with him’. (A station chief as defector-in-place, Gordiefsky was the ultimate pure espionage coup.) In espionage literature this myth is most strikingly displayed by Verrier’s Through the Looking Glass (Cape, London, 1983). Pitched somewhere between the Sunday Express and the […]
