[…] ‘house journal’ of the neo-cons in the 1970s was Commentary, the journal of the American Jewish Committee.) Alarmed by the ‘even-handed’ approach taken by Henry Kissinger and Nixon during the 1973 Israeli war with the Arabs, the Israeli lobby set about remaking US foreign policy to protect Israel. This involved first recreating the Soviet […]
[…] main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges and politicians also feature in this book (including some interesting Nixon connections). Another very interesting claim that Di Fonzo repeats is that made by Aldo Moro’s widow to the effect that the CIA were behind the Red […]
[…] the first example of an attempt to fit UK events into the framework provided by Gemstone. On the first page we get Miller, Judah Binstock, Lansky, Luciano, Nixon, Onassis, Danite Mormons (?), Watergate, Hughes, Kennedy, CIA JFK, the Warren Commission……It’s a farrago in which one or two suggestive facts are buried under a torrent […]
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]
[…] in a similar position. But they have both developed enough political clout to do this. The lesson is clear. Neither countries nor their peoples are constrained to be towed in the wake of international capital. They have political choices. Notes 8 Ironically, this was the time when Richard Nixon declared, ‘We are all Keynesians, now’.
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
