[…] electoral college votes. The USA has had some remarkable vote-rigging manoeuvres in the past: Kennedy’s mob-assisted skullduggery in Illinois (worth 22 collegiate votes) seems to have robbed Nixon of the 1960 election.(15) Nixon, in turn, scuppered the Democrats in 1968, by persuading the Vietnamese to hold out on peace negotiations with LBJ, with the […]
[…] prices in the UK from £16.95 The first third of this book, 120 pages or so, is part parapolitical and part deep history of America from Nixon to Ronald Reagan’s first election victory. Crudely summarised, Scott shows the rise of the Pentagon and its industrial allies and political front men (almost entirely men). […]
[…] a similar training role was played by the Brazilian army and police in Bolivia, prior to the Chilean coup-slaughter of 1973.(147) This is consistent both with the Nixon doctrine and with its corollary that (in the words of the Rand Corp’s Indonesia expert, Guy Pauker) “Brazil, Nigeria, Iran and Indonesia….are expected to assume a […]
[…] in this country a good deal of newsprint was rightly devoted to his brutal treatment of political opponents. Rather less was said about the role of the Nixon administration in facilitating the downfall of democracy in Chile via the destabilisation of Allende’s administration. This was strange because the Pinochet affair erupted here in the […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. There is no doubt that the decline and fall of Richard Nixon in 1973-4, along with the flood of revelations which washed him out of office, meant – at least in the short run – a weakening of U.S. support for reaction overseas. After the Chilean bloodbath of […]
[…] the highly publicised Senate Hearings in February 1973 on the nomination of L. Patrick Gray, the New York Times and Washington Post, then locked in battle with Nixon, declined to report it. The press interviews with Artime and Sturgis about their anti-narcotics activities were likewise ignored at the time, as were all the growing […]
[…] 40’. Bernard Barker testified that Felipe de Diego, who, with Barker and Rolando Martinez, had previously burgled the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist for Howard Hunt and the Nixon White House, “had been a member of Operation 40”;(32) this aspect of Barker’s testimony was neither reported by the New York Times nor included in its […]
[…] the book, Loftus’ interview is dotted with fascinating bits and pieces. For example: ‘After Nixon’s narrow loss to Kennedy and the narrow loss of Dewey to Truman, Nixon was determined to mobilize his own political bloc. He was convinced that the American Jews had dollars, voted Democrat, and were his enemies. So he felt […]
[…] to help the Americans. He was head of the mission until 1965, subsequently visiting Saigon a number of times before being appointed a special consultant by President Nixon. Less publicity has been given to the involvement of other British military personnel in the Vietnam war. “More sensitive operations, such as those in Vietnam, have […]
[PDF file]: Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]
