[PDF file]: […] approach to such destruction of evidence is to dig deeper, and to make ‘spoliation inferences’ where the facts justify them. An over-reliance on documentary exhibits as the gold standard of evidence not only tends to produce false negatives when spoliation has occurred – it can also give rise to false positives. Words on paper […]
[PDF file]: Blair Inc. Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan London: John Blake, 2015, £20.00, h/b O ne of the two reported contributions Tony Blair made to Labour’s 2015 election campaign was a speech in support of the European Union. In April the former leader said: ‘The referendum will, for the first time since we joined […]
[PDF file]: The American deep state Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy Peter Dale Scott Lanham (Boulder) and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, $35.00 and £21.95, h/b www.rowman.com P eter Dale Scott’s essays in the 1970s on the Kennedy assassination showed me how to write: keep it clear, simple, and have every assertion […]
[PDF file]: […] Abdullah al-Sallal in the Yemen that was allied with the Egyptians. This operation, covertly supported by the British government, was financed by the Saudis who paid ‘with gold bullion’.8 It is worth noting here that the British had no problem whatsoever supporting Islamist rebels against a secular government! He was also involved in an […]
[PDF file]: […] of the situation agrees with that of MI5 and its allies on the right at the time, with one essential difference: MI5 was aware that the ‘Moscow gold’ from the Soviet Union was mostly going to the Communist Party’s industrial department (which was running the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions). As […]
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[PDF file]: […] on the principle that currency convertibility was essential for free trade (the primary US interest) and that this could be accomplished by linking currencies to the fixed gold value of the US dollar. Imbalances in exchange rates or trade were to be compensated by extending credit to countries, called special drawing rights (SDR), ultimately […]
[PDF file]: […] done in his career being a disaster . . . the Dardanelles, intervening in Russia in 1919, the black and tans in Ireland, going back on the gold standard, the Abdication, Norway, intervening in Greece . . . he never really answers questions, offering instead an immense amount of literary obfuscation, he prefers to […]
