[…] the Labour Party. Nixon’s treason: still officially unspeakable In 1968, as that year’s presidential election came into view, President Johnson and those around him learned that Richard Nixon was doing his best to frustrate the Vietnam peace talks then underway in Paris. Nixon was afraid that a peace deal would enable the Democrats to […]
[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party. Nixon’s treason: still officially unspeakable In 1968, as that year’s presidential election came into view, President Johnson and those around him learned that Richard Nixon was doing his best to frustrate the Vietnam peace talks then underway in Paris. Nixon was afraid that a peace deal would enable the Democrats to […]
[PDF file]: […] phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? The DNC was a bureaucratic entity, not where the political action was. In his memoirs, Richard Nixon recalled his reaction to learning of the burglary: ‘……..Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that a national committee headquarters was a useless place to […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: INTERVIEW EUU Words Graeme Bowman Photographs Chris Blatt Behindology: the study of hard political realities obscured by layers of hype and spin. Britain’s leading professor on the subject, irascible Scot Robin Ramsay, publishes conspiracy theory magazine Lobster from his front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO […]
[PDF file]: […] difficult to tell precisely where the Luce empire’s overseas intelligence network ended and the CIA’s began’.25 During Eisenhower’s second term, Time magazine’s cover had featured vice-president Richard Nixon no fewer than five times. There was no doubt about where this was heading, and in October 1960 the Luces’ endorsement of presidential candidate Nixon was […]
[PDF file]: […] order to fund the costly wars in Korea and Vietnam – so massive it was becoming a threat to the value of the US dollar and the Nixon administration was faced with the possibility of a devaluation. Since the establishment of the fixed exchange rates in the Bretton Woods agreements – which also created […]
[…] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]
Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
[…] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]
[…] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.27 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]
