Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over…..’ Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] Watergate on the site,3 for example, which makes the banal point that conspiracy and cock-up often go together but discusses only the more obvious conspiracies within the Nixon White House. The authors appear to know little about Watergate’s place in and links to the American national security state revelations in the 1960s and 70s. […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] of opacity in nuclear affairs, a policy which had its origin during the Johnson presidency and was reinforced in a bargain made with the U.S. during the Nixon presidency. Its abandonment accompanied by the admission that Israel violated the Limited Test Ban Treaty would create some serious political fallout for both countries. But it […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the early 2000s, culminating in her 2006 book Londonistan (London: Gibson Square). 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 Putin-hacked-the-election story, he wrote the following: ‘The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, […]