Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] evil geniuses are as real as 9-11 and the Holocaust. So, too, are the bumbling cabals of politicians and intelligence operatives bent upon adventures such as Iran-Contra, Watergate and the Bay of Pigs. Would Doctor Moore hold that the Nuremberg Trials were an exercise in conspiracism? Of course not. Would she deny that Hamas, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] campaign funds or was politically and financially indebted to the people who ran Vegas. Paul Laxalt, one of only two republican Senate gains in the year after Watergate, had been a long-time defender of casino interests in the state. He was the first to form a Citizens for Reagan Committee, later becoming one of […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics of sexual blackmail and sex scandals over many decades. In 2016, American voters elected as their […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] is ‘provoking’ Russia? Why is it so hard for some on the left to be opposed to the American empire and opposed to Russia’s expansion by invasion? Watergate at 50 A ‘two-day online conference’ marking the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took place over 9 and 10 June.35 One of the keynote speakers […]