[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] The title is doubly misleading: in the first place, little of it – less than 10% I would guess – deals with Watergate. Secondly, the suggestion that Nixon and ‘the plumbers’ were set-up is false. The author tells us that a Washington policeman was warned in advance of the Watergate burglary and let it […]
[PDF file]: […] legislation. On the one hand seeking an investment boom in Britain via cheap credit; on the other allowing the introduction of a system which explicitly promised 43 Nixon had already floated the dollar. 44 Geoffrey Howe quoted in Michael Kandiah (ed.), ‘The Heath Government: a witness seminar’, in Contemporary Record, vol. 9, no.1, 1995, […]
