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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] 6. For another view of the Splinter Factor story see . 59 60 25 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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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