[…] was new in these intrigues. In contrast to the role of the CIA in the coups of Brazil (1964), Indonesia (1975) and Greece (1967), the CIA under Nixon had never before intervened so directly on behalf of privilege against an established democracy. Retired CIA spokesman, David Phillips, in exculpating his own role in the […]
[…] America of the ex-Nazi Spinne network. (81) U.S. opposition to networks of ex-Nazis like Barbie and Ricord appeared to be unrelenting in the period of 1970-72, when Nixon, with important help from the CIA, pressured and eventually destroyed the Ricord network of French Corsican drug traffickers in Latin America. But even the Ricord crackdown, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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, […]
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far […]
[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 […]
[…] public office is clear evidence of self-denial. But then Agnew lived – and came a cropper – in those simpler, more honest times before Watergate brought down Nixon, whose downfall shortly led to Richard Cheney’s first job at the White House. The renewed shift towards ‘crony capitalism’ which Bush’s leadership of the United States […]
