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[…] puns, including Waste-more-men. 56 23 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 CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over…..’ Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of […]

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[…] puns, including Waste-more-men. 43 18 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 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 […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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. […]

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[…] 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 13 14 What there is on Manson is in Chaos by Tom O’Neill. See . On Jonestown the only research of […]

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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, […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity by Thomas Gift

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Calley was prosecuted for his part in the atrocity and sentenced to life imprisonment, but only served three years under house arrest before being pardoned by President Nixon. In reality, Calley was a scapegoat, certainly guilty of war crimes, but thrown under the bus to protect others more senior.2 One last point: Hegseth has […]

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[…] SLA there were suggestions in the mid 1970s. See Dick Russell’s ‘Who Ran the SLA?’ at . 7 2 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 […]

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