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[…] this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. * Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b S omewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] at or . He is not related to the Rothschilds in the book. 1 1 To understand Kanye West ranting on Alex Jones’s show about how great Hitler was requires understanding the influence that John Birch Society speechwriter Gary Allen’s 1971 book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, had on Jones, an effect which he […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] at or . He is not related to the Rothschilds in the book. 1 1 To understand Kanye West ranting on Alex Jones’s show about how great Hitler was requires understanding the influence that John Birch Society speechwriter Gary Allen’s 1971 book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, had on Jones, an effect which he […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

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[…] the bomb to ‘subdue the 4 Dower notes that some of the European scientists, who had assumed that they were working on a scheme that would thwart Hitler building the first atomic weapons, were dismayed by the steady drift of the Manhattan Project toward an anti-Soviet outcome. It is interesting to consider at what […]

Newsinger Uproar

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Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972 Aaron J Leonard London: Repeater Books, 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] to the American President. He was so keen to abase himself that he claimed that “Britain was the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting against Hitler“. America did not declare war on Germany until December 1941.’ In the months before the Obama visit there were examples of the UK’s role as the […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972 Aaron J Leonard London: Repeater Books, 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] emerge on all these groups, we will find that a substantial proportion of their leading members were anti-semites, as well as being pro-Franco, pro-Mussolini and, finally, pro- Hitler. Gisela Lebzelter noted that the leading members of the Britons Publishing Company (publishers of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion) “were also affiliated with other […]

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] state propaganda machine. This machine was the crucial factor. Similar propaganda efforts in 1941 played an important part in making Stalin the Russian emblem of defiance and Hitler the German emblem of defiance in 1945. In the British instance, the propaganda effort was decisive, not the supposed character of the man or his supposed […]

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