When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] daily drama in Wilson’s kitchen cabinet was a Strindberg play with scenes from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ (p. 214) We get another go round Watergate and Nixon without any of the more recent work on the story. He portrays all manner of potentially interesting material, and declines to draw any conclusions from it […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] on the list of his exposés is long. He reported on the Watergate scandal for the New York Times (had Fox News existed at the time would Nixon have got away with it?); he helped destroy the reputation of the international war criminal, Henry Kissinger; he revealed US involvement in the overthrow of the […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to defend itself against a supposedly ‘hostile press’). It is worth noting that the Washington Post’s investigation of the Watergate scandal, culminating in the downfall of President Nixon, did not involve any use of the US FOI Act anyway. Ford’s attempt to use Watergate as an excuse to ‘smother’ FOI managed to achieve the […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Eden to order a halt within 24 hours. In the US voting was taking place in the presidential elections at precisely that moment and, although the Eisenhower- Nixon ticket breezed home with 57% of the popular vote, the US had insisted on an immediate ceasefire. It’s never been really clear why the UK and […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] The Plot against the King 3: The Return of the King was illustrated by James Scrawl and published by Brave Books in 2024. 1 2 causing Richard Nixon in particular many problems, but really going after Donald Trump without restraint because of the threat that he posed to its continued rule. The ‘corrupt bureaucrats’ […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] certainly possible that the cold war might have thawed a bit more had he lived — and remember that it was cold warriors and war criminals Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who reached out to Moscow and Beijing — there is no reason to believe that he was going to pull out of Vietnam, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] article didn’t credit Thomas Mahl, the man who originally researched the story.49 Virtually the last connection to the old isolationist wing of the Republican Party is former Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan. In one of his recent columns, about the Putinhacked-the-election story, he wrote the following:50 ‘The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] a CIA coup in America! Daniel Ellsberg, who says the coup began on 9-11, has said that Obama is deceiving the American public as Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon did through Vietnam. The 2011 exit date is ‘false’ and ‘Vietnamistan’ lies ahead (as the leaked cables of November 2009 from Afghanistan Ambassador Eikenberry – another […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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[…] certainly possible that the cold war might have thawed a bit more had he lived — and remember that it was cold warriors and war criminals Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who reached out to Moscow and Beijing — there is no reason to believe that he was going to pull out of Vietnam, […]

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