[…] whom Berlet crusades and Alexander Cockburn pontificates — know it. But it is still news to a small group that control the diminishing ‘progressive’ press in America. Clinton, another Trilateralist? This ‘progressive’ press has been blindsided by a special-interest multiculturalism that has the ruling class laughing all the way to their banks. Unlike in […]
[…] anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton administrations, the authors simply reject the various claims that there is or has been a Rhodes Scholars network within the American ruling elites. Carroll Quigley is […]
[…] and bankrupt the Mexican economy. (The economic damage and sums of money involved are vastly greater than in the British government’s Sterling/EMF disaster) 1995 30 January President Clinton guarantees a 50-billion dollar loan to Mexico to bail out the collapsing stock market. The Mexican market gambles of American companies like Goldman Sachs, a huge […]
[…] one political party in the US, with two wings, is only half true. I don’t want to sound too naive here, but whereas the Democratic administrations (Carter, Clinton) mostly tried to do things for the common good as they perceived it (within the limitations imposed by their sources of finance), behind the Republican rhetoric […]
Thanks again to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Although all URLs are checked shortly before publication, occasionally websites unaccountably disappear. Contributions, comments and info welcome – my email address is Secrecy, censorship FOI and released records Freedom of Information Draft Bill http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/foi/dfoibill.htm Link to the draft FOI Bill (May 1999) and FOI […]
The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that […]
Roundtable I get regular e-mail bulletins from an organisation called the roundtable – not the Round Table but somebody? some people? trying to document the US ruling elite by the study of its organisations. Really they should be called Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – because it is the CFR they mostly write about; its […]
Votescam (again) Reading the papers and listening to the radio in the days immediately after Bush’s election victory brought home what a parallel universe we readers of magazines like Lobster are living in. Here we had an enormous election surprise: despite many of the pre-election polls in the last few days of the […]
[…] FSA and the companies, they would never be told anything. The problem was they didn’t have the proper resources to find out for themselves.’(10) (emphases added) The Clinton administration’s part in the drama In the New York Times of 30 September 1999 in ‘Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending’, Steven A. Holmes […]
Europe IncDangerous Liaison Between EU Institutions and Industry This is the first publication of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Amsterdam-based foundation which will ‘monitor and report on the activities of European corporations and their lobby groups’. Very nicely produced and illustrated, this is 72 A-4 pages and costs £5.00 in the U.K. and US $10.00 […]
