The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] entice the jobless young as much as comfort the affluent who will never get near combat, then we retreat into the placidity of entertainment while our heroes kill and torture and steal to enrich their masters on our behalf. This Orwellian (and even Heinleinian) reality was obvious from the first moments 9/11 turned into […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] product of secret payoffs by Hughes to protect his business empire, and a frantic effort by Nixon to head off potential exposure of their relationship lest it kill his chances for reelection. O’Brien was a key target of the White House because he had business and political relationships of his own with top Hughes […]

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