[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]: […] 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]: […] 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, […]
[PDF file]: […] a global network of tax havens. Many commentators taking stock of where the UK finds itself in 2019, may agree with the comments of Times journalist Simon Nixon who noted that ‘the British state and political class have proved alarmingly ill-equipped’ 21 to deal with significant economic and political challenges. Not that these are […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] on the list of his exposés is long. He reported on the Watergate scandal for the New York Times (had Fox News existed at the time would Nixon have got away with it?); he helped destroy the reputation of the international war criminal, Henry Kissinger; he revealed US involvement in the overthrow of the […]
[PDF file]: […] to defend itself against a supposedly ‘hostile press’). It is worth noting that the Washington Post’s investigation of the Watergate scandal, culminating in the downfall of President Nixon, did not involve any use of the US FOI Act anyway. Ford’s attempt to use Watergate as an excuse to ‘smother’ FOI managed to achieve the […]
