Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political […]
[PDF file]: […] no one knows for sure what motivated the historic break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters during the 1972 presidential campaign.2 Another unresolved puzzle is why President Nixon, who was apparently ignorant of plans for the burglary, did not simply fire those involved and cut his losses. What cost him the presidency was not […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Watergate scandal, in summer 1974, Dr Henry Kissinger tried to tell the world about an act of treason that had been committed by President Richard Nixon over the Vietnam War. The information was passed to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post – but it never appeared in print. Richard Nixon’s flashing of […]
[PDF file]: […] and his close aide Clyde Tolson under surveillance to determine if they had a homosexual relationship, but came up emptyhanded. See Mark Feldstein, Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), pp. 137-139. ‘lavender scare’ led to the firing of almost […]
[PDF file]: […] I am grateful to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies (Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, […]
[PDF file]: […] any information, I do not want any information that comes in from you on these delicate and sensitive subjects to go to anybody outside . . .” Nixon was finally ready to tip his hand. “The ‘Who shot John?’ angle,” he said quietly, 17 minutes into the conversation. Nixon did not dwell on the […]
[PDF file]: […] any information, I do not want any information that comes in from you on these delicate and sensitive subjects to go to anybody outside . . .” Nixon was finally ready to tip his hand. “The ‘Who shot John?’ angle,” he said quietly, 17 minutes into the conversation. Nixon did not dwell on the […]
[PDF file]: […] sexual inclinations’.19 Such peculiar preoccupations are not expressed in A Century of War, but Engdahl does describe Kissinger as ‘all-powerful’ and having held ‘absolute power’ in the Nixon Administration; and that he had been an ‘appendage of the Rockefeller Group’ since the 1950s.20 More importantly, Kissinger is the central figure in his claims about […]
[…] professor, deep in thought, oblivious to the world.” Entity Tags: David Kuo, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, Stephen Hayes Category Tags: All Day of 9/11 Events, Dick Cheney *new* Nixon and Israel Current events in the Middle East sent me back to the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when the American-Israel alliance was permanently rooted in American politics. […]
[PDF file]: […] affair which straddled the Kennedy and Johnson administrations – and which was reported on at the time. Marshall works his way from the Truman administration through to Nixon in great detail. ‘Using a wide range of original archival materials, declassified intelligence files, and other sources, I describe ways in which political and business actors, […]
[PDF file]: […] has been discussed in these pages before. ‘Roger Stone combines his decades of insider political ken with cutting edge JFK research to let you know what Richard Nixon, Henry Cabot Lodge, Barry Goldwater and the KGB all concluded: Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the assassination of John Kennedy.’ Nixon has not explicitly said this (and doesn’t […]
