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 […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[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 […]