[…] ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (22) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the slightest signs of understanding who it […]
[…] George Wallace Christopher Ketcham has re-examined the evidence suggesting that the shooter of Governor George Wallace, Arthur Bremer, was…..what? Some kind of stooge/patsy being manipulated for the Nixon White House? And there is a lot of evidence, more than enough to have justified as much interest as in the other killings. Given his politics, […]
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far […]
[…] Union during this time, plus an extensive online volume of intelligence documents created during the Soviet collapse. History and Politics Out Loud http://www.hpol.org/ Includes links to selected Nixon Watergate tapes and transcripts. HPOL (History and Politics Out Loud – is funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with Michigan State University) is […]
What was Henry Brandon? One of the most interesting secondary sources covering the struggles of the British Labour government under Harold Wilson to prevent the devaluation of sterling between 1964-66 is Henry Brandon’s In the Red, published by Andre Deutsch in 1966. It is a remarkably well-informed text and its reliability is underlined by the […]
[…] flagrant disregard for the divine law. Like the Birchers, evangelicals flocked to Goldwater’s disastrous Presidential campaign in 1964. In 1968 they came out in large numbers for Nixon, the man who seemed to champion the godly ‘silent majority’ against the long-hairs, hippies and freaks who opposed the war in Vietnam and wanted America to […]
[PDF file]: […] – not with a bang but with what Nixon’s press secretary famously called a ‘third-rate burglary attempt’.2 In the ensuing years, more than 70 people in the Nixon administration would be convicted or plead guilty to crimes. Yet only a handful of convictions related to what gave the scandal its name: the June 17 […]
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more
[…] least partly orchestrated from quarters (rather than discounted as a random phenomenon). In fact, one aspect of the Trilateral interregnum covering the period between the fall of Nixon and the Reagan-Bush era may have been that in the absence of a really effective hegemonic concept of control, violence was resorted to in order to […]
[…] through Jack who was the conduit for Soviet funds to the party. Morris travelled extensively meeting both Brezhnev and Mao Tse Tung, at one time briefing President Nixon on some of his foreign travels and contacts. All three presidents of the 1960s were aware of the Solo project and Hoover obviously regarded them as […]
