U.S. President Bill Clinton has made a number of public references to the impresssion made on him as a young student by Professor Carroll Quigley. (1) As Lobster readers will know, Quigley was the author of Tragedy and Hope (U.S., MacMillan, 1966) in which he described for the first time the role of the […]
[…] 15 June and 11 August this year. The story is instructive on two levels. First because it suggests that it may be wrong to claim that if Clinton or Gore had been in the White House there would have been no war and secondly for what it tells us about British foreign policy in […]
[…] CIA ran drugs and weapons through the small airstrip at Mena, Arkansas. For this is another bipartisan scandal which forces us to examine not just then governor Clinton, who allegedly protected the operation, but also Oliver North, George Bush and the entire contra effort. The details of this insanely complex affair now fill a […]
[…] also a panel members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. Presenting the Final Report of their findings in October 1995, Chair Ruth R. Faden thanked Clinton ‘for his courage and leadership in appointing the Advisory Committee’.(1) On January 4, 1994, before Clinton’s orders, James Woosley, then the Director of Central Intelligence, had […]
[…] the first major media reference to Carroll Quigley in this country.(5) The meaning of Mena? Another current source of conspiracy theories is the Clinton-Whitewater-Mena-drugs-cocaine-CIA-contra story. Are there Clinton buffs out there now following the Clinton scandals the way there are Kennedy buffs? Maybe one would get in touch and explain to me how much […]
[…] interviews – one with James R. Bath, who brought bin Laden and Saudi money into Texas; one with Richard Clarke, the discontented ‘counter-terrorism czar’. Unger is a Clinton fan and can’t fault Bill on anything. He dislikes Bush II and the gang currently in the White House. He isn’t sure how to deal with […]
The most reported episode at the 2002 Labour Party Conference was the tour of Blackpool made by ex-President Clinton and film star Kevin Spacey. Given the status and photogenic nature of the individuals concerned this was hardly surprising. Little was said in the media, though, about the duos’ grand entrance, accompanied by the Prime […]
[…] Britain’, and 13 March, 1994, ‘Rhodes to Success’. On the basis of almost entirely non-attributable sources, the former article claimed that the various Rhodes Scholars around President Clinton had come to hate the British ruling class while at Oxford. (If only….) The latter piece attempts to invert the reports of British snobbery towards colonial […]
[…] suicide,” he said. “I know how these bastards think . .”‘ (2) Syd’s tell Although essentially a hagiography, Sydney Blumenthal’s 800 page memoir of life at the Clinton White House, The Clinton Wars (London: Viking, 2003), contains a very interesting account of the enormous efforts (and expense) by the Republicans and their corporate supporters […]
[…] troops from Kosovo) “to seize the airport. Jackson responded, famously, that he would not start World War Three for him” Following two days of talks directly between Clinton and Yeltsin, the crisis was averted. Instead there followed weeks of “protracted negotiations on Russia’s role in the Kosovo peacekeeping mission.” In the end, under circumstances […]
