[…] Be were showing an abiding concern and interest in the Garrison investigation. President Johnson called Acting Attorney General Ramsay Clark and spoke to him about Ferrie’s death. LBJ was ‘very concerned about this matter’ and wanted full details. On March 1st Ferrie was buried and Garrison announced the arrest of Clay L. Shaw for […]
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a […]
The incompetence which has been the hallmark of the world’s ‘most powerful man’ has left the world with a legacy we can only begin to rub our eyes at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of […]
[…] and learned from him that the paymaster for the hit, codenamed ‘Troit’, set Oswald up as a patsy. Who was ‘Troit’? McDonald ‘reveals’ in his later book LBJ And The JFK Conspiracy, that the KGB planned the assassination between 1961 and 1963. (Interestingly enough, McDonald’s co-author, Robin Moore, produced the film MacArthur with funds […]
[…] of things did strike me. On Israeli nuclear development: “Perhaps the most significant development of 1963 for the Israeli nuclear programme, however, occurred on November 22nd … LBJ was sworn in..” (p165) “Kennedy was less than whole-heartedly pro-Israeli.” Author Green comments on a Kennedy-Golda Meir exchange that it was “the last time for many, […]
[…] and Carter – who tried to slow/stop the nuclear arms race, were right. But Kennedy was killed (if not by the Pentagon, by one of the politicians, LBJ, who fronted for it on Capitol Hill) and Carter retreated when his talk of nuclear disarmament was rubbished at home and in the Kremlin (where there […]
[…] of sense, why do something so massive and so economically destructive? The same propaganda effect, the same stampeding of Congress, could have been achieved with infinitely less. LBJ stampeded Congress with nothing more than radar contacts between North Vietnamese and US boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. If you wanted to blame al-Qaeda for […]
[…] ex-Presidents Nelson Mandela for instance. Celebrities have occasionally dropped by. But it is instructive to think back just a few years. Would we have seen, say LBJ and Robert Redford in the same venue Blackpool in 1972, perhaps being introduced by that years Conference Chair, Tony Benn? Perhaps the episode represents […]
[…] the U.S. invasion, and secondly by being there even when Iraq was run by Saddam. Has crony capitalism evolved since the days when Brown and Root pump-primed LBJ for special treatment? Whilst the Brown brothers set out to win government business by developing what by today’s standards would be judged corrupt means, and to […]
[…] then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend or excuse. Crucially, he accepts the received view that JFK and LBJ were the same: he is apparently unaware of JFK’s plan to pull the US out of Vietnam. ‘Nor is there any reasons to suppose that things […]
