The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] 6. For another view of the Splinter Factor story see . 59 60 25 innocence, as Hiss did; and (2) Hiss’s accusers included the FBI and Richard Nixon, and nothing either of those asserted in the 1950s should be believed without a ton of evidence. Such evidence may exist; I haven’t read much of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] guilty because (1) the guilty tend not to spend their entire lives protesting their innocence, as Hiss did; and (2) Hiss’s accusers included the FBI and Richard Nixon, and nothing either of those asserted in the 1950s should be believed without a ton of evidence. Such evidence may exist; I haven’t read much of […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] how will they deal with what he confidently expects will be Trump’s systematic destruction of all record of his crimes in office. This was made illegal after Nixon, but no one seriously expects Trump to take any notice of that. (pp. 60-64) On a more serious note, Smock assesses what history’s verdict is likely […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] always was an American project. It was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.’ And for the second time Evans-Pritchard failed to mention – perhaps he is simply unaware of it – that this has been known on the […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] US sponsored invasion force at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. Richardson was to be appointed to a top job in the US State Department by Richard Nixon in 1969. And inevitably, when the Russians invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979, the IRC was involved in establishing refugee camps across the border in […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Alexander Chancellor pointed out in The Spectator, 9 March 2013, many years ago Mao Tse-tung gave Edward Heath two pandas for London Zoo; and similarly to Richard Nixon. under instructions from its government to maintain a low profile. Both nations are empire-building but doing it in different ways: Russia originally going for high visibility […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] article didn’t credit Thomas Mahl, the man who originally researched the story.34 Virtually the last connection to the old isolationist wing of the Republican Party is former Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan. In one of his recent columns, about the Putin-hacked-the-election story, he wrote the following:35 ‘The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2002; and Joe Murphy, ‘Peter’s (new) friends’, Evening Standard, 27 September 2002. and the Caribbean.157 Henry Kissinger: National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, until 9/11 Kissinger had been in conflict with the neo-conservatives, who derided him as the architect of an amoral foreign policy that appeased […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] century, American conservatism ‘has delivered much more harm than good, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to the Trump presidency’. (p. 6) Frum admits that Nixon, Reagan and both the Bushes ‘may sometimes have drawn power from deep and dark energies in the American soul’, but they were Paul McGuire and Troy […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] which in subsequent decades was to spread across much of the globe. Informal empire in Chile That much is familiar, along with the role played by the Nixon administration and the CIA in destabilising Allende’s government and covertly backing opposition to it in Chilean business and military circles.2 There are, however, two aspects of […]

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