[…] 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: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.4 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]
[PDF file]: […] is occasionally guilty of conspiratorial speculation – his writing is an impressive mixture of analysis and polemic Through this main narrative are striking by-ways: an essay on Nixon, listing the good things the Nixon regimes did (and it’s quite a list, most of which I had forgotten); and an account of the Reagan administration’s […]
[PDF file]: Douglas Valentine Waterville (Oregon):TrineDay, 2009, $24.95 (USA) Dr. T. P. Wilkinson When I was a child the older daughter of my father’s best friend was reading a book called The Secret Language. I remember searching for the book in the school library, but failing to find it, begged Susan to lend me her copy. At […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
[PDF file]: […] Even as the last US Americans2 0 and their Vietnamese retainers were being ferried out of Saigon forty years ago, there was no talk of surrender. Richard Nixon always spoke of ‘peace with honour’: this is the perfume of a bully applied to the skin of a coward. As far as the White House, […]
[PDF file]: […] Mark Felt – whether he was ‘deep throat’ or not – leaking to Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post as the FBI tried to undermine President Nixon whose aspirations to gain control of parts of the deep state threatened both the FBI and CIA. Continues at the foot of the next page. The […]
[PDF file]: The Christian Right Revisited John Newsinger The Christian Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 […]
[PDF file]: Operation Mindfuck QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump Robert Guffey London and New York: OR books, 2022, £15 (p/b) £8 (ebook) Robin Ramsay The author’s name may ring a bell.1 He has been researching the wonderful world of American conspiracy theories for about 25 years and in this book he takes on the biggest […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today1 in which, among other things, he said this. ‘Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States, you’ll see that in many points; like […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today 1in which, among other things, he said this. ‘Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States, you’ll see that in many points; like for example, the majority of […]
