View from the Bridge

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[…] JFK research community which the major media either is unaware of or choses to ignore. *new* Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate 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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] esign Greasing the wheels A piece in the Telegraph on 22 August 2009, ‘Millions spent on NHS management consultants with Labour links’, began: ‘The 6 ‘Britain’s own Watergate scandal (shurely shome mishtake? Ed)’, The Independent, 14 September. 7 Page 107 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Department of Health has spent almost £500 million on management […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Trump was all that stood between evangelical Christianity and the new Nazi liberals. Trump One of Richard Nixon’s inner circle who was imprisoned for his role in Watergate and became a born again Christian. 13 15 was a real man. Metaxas remained devotedly loyal to Trump in office, even writing a number of embarrassing […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the CIA’s most influential figures in the post-war period. He helped Philips establish the Association of Former Intelligence Officers in 1975, during the aftermath of the Watergate affair, when the reputations of many in the CIA and their supporters on the political right in the US were at a low 33 Loving Awareness […]

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[…] essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, notably Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti, revealed details of the Agency’s operations. […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not […]

Newsinger on Patel

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian agent’, was ‘the biggest political conspiracy in American history’. And as for the raid on Mar-a-Lago carried out by the FBI in August 2021, this ‘makes Watergate look like the teacup ride at Disney World’. Trump, he tells us, was ‘the most transparent president in history’ and certainly not someone to ever try […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] who ran the US’s war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate era. Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America Michael Barkun Berkeley/London: University of California Press, 2003, £16.95 p/b Barkun is a professor of political science and this is […]

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