View from the Bridge

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[…] 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’.4 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]

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, […]

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 Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in some of his personal enmities and paranoid vendettas while he was about it, so much the better. Eisenhower himself stays out of the limelight but Richard Nixon can be observed hovering in the wings throughout this section, clearly taking notes. There is a delightful vignette in which a military intelligence officer was called […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[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, […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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[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 […]

Lob86ViewfromBridgepdf

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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 or 72 73 Did they? I remember it as Wastemoreland but Google tells me there were other puns, including Waste-more-men. 74 27 who […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] drove European integration in 2 Danny Nicol, ‘Is Another Europe possible?’ at . the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.’ 3 And for the second time Evans-Pritchard failed to mention – perhaps he is simply unaware of it – that this has been known on […]

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