[…] dreadful. ‘The daily drama in Wilson’s kitchen cabinet was a Strindberg play with scenes from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ (p. 214) We get another go round Watergate and Nixon without any of the more recent work on the story. He portrays all manner of potentially interesting material, and declines to draw any conclusions […]
[…] JFK research community which the major media either is unaware of or choses to ignore. *new* Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]
[PDF file]: […] esign Greasing the wheels A piece in the Telegraph on 22 August 2009, ‘Millions spent on NHS management consultants with Labour links’, began: ‘The 6 ‘Britain’s own Watergate scandal (shurely shome mishtake? Ed)’, The Independent, 14 September. 7 Page 107 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Department of Health has spent almost £500 million on management […]
[PDF file]: […] Trump was all that stood between evangelical Christianity and the new Nazi liberals. Trump One of Richard Nixon’s inner circle who was imprisoned for his role in Watergate and became a born again Christian. 13 15 was a real man. Metaxas remained devotedly loyal to Trump in office, even writing a number of embarrassing […]
[PDF file]: […] of the CIA’s most influential figures in the post-war period. He helped Philips establish the Association of Former Intelligence Officers in 1975, during the aftermath of the Watergate affair, when the reputations of many in the CIA and their supporters on the political right in the US were at a low 33 Loving Awareness […]
[…] essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, notably Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti, revealed details of the Agency’s operations. […]
[PDF file]: […] Russian agent’, was ‘the biggest political conspiracy in American history’. And as for the raid on Mar-a-Lago carried out by the FBI in August 2021, this ‘makes Watergate look like the teacup ride at Disney World’. Trump, he tells us, was ‘the most transparent president in history’ and certainly not someone to ever try […]
[PDF file]: […] Israeli request for 200 tons of military equipment, Golan claimed that Kissinger had ‘no intention of fulfilling those needs’. Left in control because of Nixon’s preoccupation with Watergate, Golan claims that Kissinger fed the Israeli Ambassador with ‘expressions of solidarity and empty promises’, but made no move on any shipments. Golan suggests the delay […]
[PDF file]: […] who ran the US’s war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate era. Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America Michael Barkun Berkeley/London: University of California Press, 2003, £16.95 p/b Barkun is a professor of political science and this is […]
[PDF file]: […] in profits and if green-lefty stuff makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low […]
