[PDF file]: Floating around The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange Nick Must At one of the recent hearings related to Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the U.S., the lead barrister for the defence made the ‘extraordinary claim’ that, in August of 2017, President Donald Trump had offered an amnesty to the Wikileaks founder.1 This […]
[PDF file]: […] John Newsinger Miles Taylor is a ‘security expert’ who had worked for the George W Bush administration. In February 2017 he went to work for President Donald Trump in the Department of Homeland Security as a senior adviser to General John Kelly. The following year (5 September) he published an article, ‘I Am Part […]
[PDF file]: Dark Quadrant Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump Jonathan Marshall New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021, $29.95/£22.95, h/b Robin Ramsay In 1958, the US attorney for the southern district of New York told an audience of his peers: ‘In this country today, we have […]
[PDF file]: To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’ Dr. T. P. Wilkinson A century ago, a Southern academic and racist emerged in Europe and the United States as a crusader to ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before […]
[PDF file]: The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism Peter Oborne London: Simon and Schuster, 2021, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger When I read Peter Oborne’s The Rise of Political Lying more than fifteen years ago, I was full of admiration for its exposure of New Labour’s dishonesty. […]
[PDF file]: ‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right John Newsinger On 14 May 2018, the US Embassy in Israel was formally moved to Jerusalem. This had first been called for by Congress in 1995, but with the proviso that the President could issue a waiver every […]
[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only […]
[PDF file]: Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower Garrick Alder Part 1 ‘A conspiracy to thwart the will of the people’1 Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to […]
[PDF file]: ‘I was both a choir boy and . . . a punk rocker’ Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy Christopher Steele New York: Mariner Books , 2024, £24 h/b John Newsinger In his very readable memoir Christopher Steele goes out of his way to try to establish himself as both for and […]
[PDF file]: Operation Mindfuck QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump Robert Guffey London and New York: OR books, 2022, £15 (p/b) £8 (ebook) Robin Ramsay The author’s name may ring a bell.1 He has been researching the wonderful world of American conspiracy theories for about 25 years and in this book he takes on the […]
