The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Watergate on the site,3 for example, which makes the banal point that conspiracy and cock-up often go together but discusses only the more obvious conspiracies within the Nixon White House. The authors appear to know little about Watergate’s place in and links to the American national security state revelations in the 1960s and 70s. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[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, […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of opacity in nuclear affairs, a policy which had its origin during the Johnson presidency and was reinforced in a bargain made with the U.S. during the Nixon presidency. Its abandonment accompanied by the admission that Israel violated the Limited Test Ban Treaty would create some serious political fallout for both countries. But it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 6. For another view of the Splinter Factor story see . 59 60 25 innocence, as Hiss did; and (2) Hiss’s accusers included the FBI and Richard Nixon, and nothing either of those asserted in the 1950s should be believed without a ton of evidence. Such evidence may exist; I haven’t read much of […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and zero in on the core of an issue, almost intuitively’ – which is one way of putting it. (p. 4) She had previously worked for the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations and on one occasion had unsuccessfully tried to secure the Republican nomination for a seat in the Senate. She then went to […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] guilty because (1) the guilty tend not to spend their entire lives protesting their innocence, as Hiss did; and (2) Hiss’s accusers included the FBI and Richard Nixon, and nothing either of those asserted in the 1950s should be believed without a ton of evidence. Such evidence may exist; I haven’t read much of […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] how will they deal with what he confidently expects will be Trump’s systematic destruction of all record of his crimes in office. This was made illegal after Nixon, but no one seriously expects Trump to take any notice of that. (pp. 60-64) On a more serious note, Smock assesses what history’s verdict is likely […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] always was an American project. It was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.’ And for the second time Evans-Pritchard failed to mention – perhaps he is simply unaware of it – that this has been known on the […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

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