Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] nothing. To call it ‘manipulated race war’ at the minimum we need some explanation and some evidence. We get neither. On the decision made under President Nixon to end the post-war system of fixed currencies and float the dollar, he writes: ‘The real architects of the Nixon strategy were in the influential City […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] of today’s neo-conservative assault on the 1945 settlement. Something happened in the way that political managers of the global conservative community conducted themselves between the era of Nixon and the era of Reagan that enabled a covert war of aggression against communism to be pursued much more effectively in alliance with elements of the […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (15) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the slightest signs of understanding who it […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] assumptions of the Cold War or the War on Terror isn’t going to win you a reputation for clear-eyed realism. It is one thing to believe that Nixon authorised the Watergate break-in (he didn’t), quite another to believe that Bush has done and is still doing, much, much worse. While it is conventional to […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (22) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the slightest signs of understanding who it […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] George Wallace Christopher Ketcham has re-examined the evidence suggesting that the shooter of Governor George Wallace, Arthur Bremer, was…..what? Some kind of stooge/patsy being manipulated for the Nixon White House? And there is a lot of evidence, more than enough to have justified as much interest as in the other killings. Given his politics, […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] Franks and Marenches were serving heads of British and French intelligence respectively. On the political side, Pinay – a former French Prime Minister – forged links with Nixon, Kissinger and Pompidou. The Circle’s present members include Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] lunch. Pinay had given Mr Crozier documents relating to their next project. M. Pinay had presented a copy of European Security and the Soviet Problem to President Nixon and Dr Kissinger in America. Earlier that week he had had a three hour session with President Pompidou, during which time he had presented him with […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] was around $3 per barrel. By January 1974 the Benchmark price was just under $11.50pb. The background to this – at least in my view – was Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard in 1971.’ The actual section from the Bilderberg minutes says this: ‘An American speaker pointed out that one official […]