[…] 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 […]
BAP There was a nice little twist to be observed by followers of the British American Project when Home Office minister Baroness Scotland dashed to Washington this summer seeking to prevent the extradition of the NatWest Three, caught in the long shadow of Enron. The old friend of Tony and Cherie Blair was a young […]
Mandy, The Independent and Europe As pictures of H’Angus the Monkey, the new elected mayor of Hartlepool, filled the news pages, it emerged more quietly that the other public face of that poor North-East town, Peter Mandelson, had joined the international advisory board of News and Media, the owners of The Independent and The Independent […]
In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patricia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving into a […]
On reaching 50 Reaching 50 issues is something. More or less than I hoped? Obviously, it never occurred to me twenty plus years ago that I would still be doing this now. But I never had any hopes beyond simply selling enough copies to keep producing it (and maybe, one day, producing an issue which […]
[…] www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB35/index.html (Sept 2000) By Jeffery T. Richelson. Site contains documents tracing the National Reconnaissance Office’s development from its establishment in 1961 up to its review during the Clinton administration. The Guatemalan Military: What the US Files Reveal www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB32/index.html Part of the NS Archives ongoing Guatemala Documentation Project, this report was presented in Guatemala City […]
The European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) has been in the forefront of encouraging further EU integration for over twenty years. However, many Eurorealists appear unaware of the ERT. Intended to increase awareness, this article will merely sketch the ERT and its activities. Making no claims to originality, () the article briefly examines the ERT’s […]
1. Getting closer… Despite the recent publicity about Bill Clinton, the impact made on him by Carroll Quigley, and the Rhodes Scholars’ network (see Lobster 27 p. 19, for examples), the academic world remains almost wholly unaware of Quigley’s work. In their essay ‘The Limits of Influence: foreign policy think tanks in Britain and […]
