[…] 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 […]
[…] 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). […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] an anti-Nixon conspiracy by the CIA, in my view this is a good candidate for the reason behind it; it was aimed at undermining Kissinger by undermining Nixon. One of the Watergate ‘plumbers’, former senior CIA officer James McCord, told the Senate Watergate Committee how in 1972: ‘It appeared to me that the White […]
[…] determined clique to seize control of vital aspects of US national policy, particularly in affairs concerning the Middle East. But the neo-cons rising to prominence under Nixon and the bane of Kissinger have a perhaps neglected provenance in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. The crippling of the 455-foot USS Liberty, a SIGINT […]
[…] on this exclusive CI-IIS relationship left the US in the lurch when IIS failed to predict the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In his memoirs Nixon refers to this ‘intelligence shortcoming’. No doubt at the time the message went down the line in more robust form: this wasn’t the first time Nixon […]
Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast […]
[…] “The Richest Man in the World.” At one point indeed Khashoggi had an influence in American politics analogous to Berezovskii’s in Russia. For example, Khashoggi attended both Nixon inaugurals and contributed money to his electoral campaigns. He admitted to giving $58,000 in 1968, but allegedly told Pierre Salinger he gave $1 million in 1972. […]
Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay ‘The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch […]
