[…] and maintain the external value of sterling. Instead, Heath floated the pound. Nothing, not even the international value of sterling, was to get in the way. (President Nixon had already floated the dollar.) Heath’s gamble didn’t work for two reasons. In the first place, with no commercial or economic experience, Heath simply didn’t understand […]
[…] slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking tens of billions of dollars here.) If true, […]
Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political […]
[…] and tactfully described as a Chilean Rupert Murdoch) had already been lobbying influential Americans to argue for ‘aggressive US intervention’ to remove Allende, and eventually met with Nixon and Kissinger to further press his case. He succeeded and the US did indeed intervene. El Mercurio (bankrolled to the tune of millions of dollars by […]
[…] use of our territory without notification, let alone consultation, as if NATO did not exist.’ The Americans were not pleased and viewed him as dangerously pro-Arab. President Nixon openly alleged that his “softness’ towards the Arabs was an attempt to safeguard his Ostpolitik by supporting the Soviet Union in the Middle East. Kissinger and […]
[…] Professor Bill Gaines of the University of Illinois announced that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was ‘Deep Throat’ who provided information about the Watergate break-in. This site contains a great deal of material related to the investigation conducted by Gaines and […]
[…] with explicating the Church’s overt attempts to influence political decisions and policies in the countries within which it operates. Thus, for example, Moon’s attempts to support Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, raise money for a variety of anti-communist causes, and influence Congressional votes through lobbying are reasonably well known; (7) […]
[…] were worried that the country’s socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, Bernays did later turn down an attempt to hire him made by presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, showing that the bottom of even the deepest barrel can be scraped eventually. But by then, the road that led to 1991’s fictitious tales of baby-killing […]
[…] Robert Kennedy, was shot within minutes of winning the California primary in 1968. At the time, he looked likely to beat the emerging Republican candidate, one Richard Nixon. The only other Democratic president, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, between 1952 and 1976, John F Kennedy, had owed his win to the support of […]
[…] in CIA Infiltration of the Labour Movement (Militant, 1982) p.343 Chester L. Cooper, The Lost Crusade: The Full Story of US Involvement in Vietnam from Roosevelt to Nixon (MacKibbon & Kee 1970) p.147 George Brown In My Way (Penguin 1972) p.343 Cooper op.cit. p.469 Archie Roosevelt, For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence […]
