A (very) brief history of Christian politics in the United States

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] flagrant disregard for the divine law. Like the Birchers, evangelicals flocked to Goldwater’s disastrous Presidential campaign in 1964. In 1968 they came out in large numbers for Nixon, the man who seemed to champion the godly ‘silent majority’ against the long-hairs, hippies and freaks who opposed the war in Vietnam and wanted America to […]

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A Century of War: Anglo-American oil politics and the new world order

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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 […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code

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 […]

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The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden

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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 […]

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Paranoia is what the other guy has

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 […]

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Clinton and Quigley: a strange tale from the U.S. elite

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 […]

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The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] – not with a bang but with what Nixon’s press secretary famously called a ‘third-rate burglary attempt’.2 In the ensuing years, more than 70 people in the Nixon administration would be convicted or plead guilty to crimes. Yet only a handful of convictions related to what gave the scandal its name: the June 17 […]

Mob Rule. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] Robert Kennedy, was shot within minutes of winning the California primary in 1968. At the time, he looked likely to beat the emerging Republican candidate, one Richard Nixon. The only other Democratic president, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, between 1952 and 1976, John F Kennedy, had owed his win to the support of […]

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Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] in CIA Infiltration of the Labour Movement (Militant, 1982) p.343 Chester L. Cooper, The Lost Crusade: The Full Story of US Involvement in Vietnam from Roosevelt to Nixon (MacKibbon & Kee 1970) p.147 George Brown In My Way (Penguin 1972) p.343 Cooper op.cit. p.469 Archie Roosevelt, For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence […]

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The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

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 […]

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