David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] US sponsored invasion force at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. Richardson was to be appointed to a top job in the US State Department by Richard Nixon in 1969. And inevitably, when the Russians invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979, the IRC was involved in establishing refugee camps across the border in […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] heavily on “Smear”, “War Without Honour” etc. . . .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] article didn’t credit Thomas Mahl, the man who originally researched the story.34 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:35 ‘The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Alexander Chancellor pointed out in The Spectator, 9 March 2013, many years ago Mao Tse-tung gave Edward Heath two pandas for London Zoo; and similarly to Richard Nixon. under instructions from its government to maintain a low profile. Both nations are empire-building but doing it in different ways: Russia originally going for high visibility […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] 2002; and Joe Murphy, ‘Peter’s (new) friends’, Evening Standard, 27 September 2002. and the Caribbean.157 Henry Kissinger: National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, until 9/11 Kissinger had been in conflict with the neo-conservatives, who derided him as the architect of an amoral foreign policy that appeased […]

The view from the bridge

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, […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] which in subsequent decades was to spread across much of the globe. Informal empire in Chile That much is familiar, along with the role played by the Nixon administration and the CIA in destabilising Allende’s government and covertly backing opposition to it in Chilean business and military circles.2 There are, however, two aspects of […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] century, American conservatism ‘has delivered much more harm than good, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to the Trump presidency’. (p. 6) Frum admits that Nixon, Reagan and both the Bushes ‘may sometimes have drawn power from deep and dark energies in the American soul’, but they were Paul McGuire and Troy […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] these affairs is a wild overstatement. At best you could say she thought she saw the CIA’s hidden involvement. Our authors write: In the 1968 presidential race, Nixon received pivotal funding through a person Brussell identified as a CIA conduit, Tom Pappas, in exchange for his nomination of Spiro Agnew—a reactionary supportive of a […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] 7 Does this sound familiar? This is what we are witnessing across the world (mostly in Third World nations) today. Mudslides are particularly affecting America’s ‘backyard’, as Nixon called Central and South America, with devastation in Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, and other emerging economic and political threats to US hegemony. 32 Brzezinski cited in Michel […]

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