Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

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 […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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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, […]

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