Search Results for: BOSS
In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan
[PDF file]: How the country is run In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister 1 Alan Duncan London: William Collins, 2021, £25, h/b John Newsinger In the Introduction to his Diaries that cover the period from 2016 until 2020, Alan Duncan makes clear that he is well aware that for many of his […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.
[PDF file]: […] the Allied invasion of Sicily. In exchange for this, Lucky Luciano would be released from jail by Governor Dewey and deported to his native Italy. The under boss of Luciano’s family, Vito Genovese, had already been deported to Italy and must have figured in the OSS-ONI-Mafia plans, since immediately following the U.S. occupation we […]
Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball
[PDF file]: […] and to consider the ‘credibility’ issue as personal, rather than related to matters of state. Kissinger played Nixon’s confusion to his own political advantage. Believing, like his boss, in ‘threat diplomacy’, Kissinger encouraged the president to adopt increasingly drastic measures: ‘Be prepared to take tough escalatory steps ….(mining Haiphong, bombing Cambodia, etc.)…. to fail […]
The Christian Right Revisited
[PDF file]: […] Trump White House’. She calls him ‘a phoney’, someone who would tell ‘people what they want to hear and would kiss the ass of whoever is the boss’. She goes on that if he had been a character in a film then ‘you would hear thunderclaps in the sky and menacing organ music whenever […]
View from
[…] did.’28 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This may explain why Ruby killed Oswald: he was tidying up for his political boss. Ruby’s hints about LBJ’s role to the Warren Commission people who interviewed him may have been provoked by LBJ not getting him out of jail. 9/11 […]
Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime
View from
[…] did.’23 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This may explain why Ruby killed Oswald: he was tidying up for his political boss. Ruby’s hints about LBJ’s role to the Warren Commission people who interviewed him may have been provoked by LBJ not getting him out of jail. Lansdale […]