[PDF file]: Contents The Return of the Public Dan Hind London and New York: Verso, £14.99 Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, £14.99 Tom Easton Lobster contributor Dan Hind has produced a mind-stretching plea to no longer leave politics to the experts – the practitioners and the gatekeepers who control access […]
[…] Wurlitzer” – its network of assets and allies within the US mass media – not to mention its network of friends and allies within the East Coast liberal establishment – could have reasonably predicted to be capable of doing a great deal more than generating “temporary embarrassment”. Hougan, in effect, fails to draw the […]
[…] Sam Really Wants, Odonian Press, 1993 Chomsky, Noam Secrets, Lies and Democracy, Odonian Press, 1994 Chomsky, Noam Powers and Prospects, South End Press, 1996 Coleman, Peter A Liberal Conspiracy, Macmillan 1989 Crozier, Brian Free Agent, Harper Collins, 1993 Cumings, Bruce ‘Chinatown: Foreign Policy and Elite Realignment’ in Ferguson, Thomas & Rogers, Joel (eds.) The […]
[…] their subsequent trial described their efforts as ‘the largest attempt to subvert the democratic process’ ever discovered in Britain. (3) Isaac Leibowitz (Conservative) and Zev Leiberman ( Liberal Democrat) pulled off the Tipp-Ex trick on a grand scale. Under their careful watch, Hackney’s population of proxy voters rose by over 2,000 per cent over […]
[…] 2007) There are those who think Naomi Klein has sold out. According to Stephen Marshall’s important but flawed book, Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, she’s just another ‘fallen liberal’ who either provides ineffective and impotent criticism of the present neo-conservative order or actually feeds it. It’s because of the essential truth in much of what […]
[…] media, including our own dear Guardian, whose American reportage is in a class of its own when it comes to stumblefootedness and unthinking fealty to the neo- liberal line. Does it seem strange that I refer to neo-liberalism in the context of the King and Kennedy assassinations? I hope not. Assassination – normally of […]
[…] use of the term ‘extreme right wing’ to describe fascist, national socialist and racist opinions, and ‘right wing’ to describe positions ranging from authoritarian and ‘traditonalist’ conservatism, liberal conservatism, free market economics, classical liberalism and libertarianism. Since the latter have no political or intellectual relationship to the former, and are not part of some […]
[…] even wonders about the identity or motivation of Deep Throat. Nixon held the press off for a while with attack, the same sort of howling about the ‘liberal media’ which dominates the media today. It seems to have worked so well that Greenberg appears desperate to avoid being labelled a ‘nattering nabob of negativism’ […]
[…] can be regarded as the first Focus lunch took place at the Hotel Victoria. Apart from Churchill, those present included Sir Robert Mond, the leader of the Liberal Party, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Labour MP Hugh Dalton and, at Churchill’s suggestion, another leading Liberal, Violet Bonham Carter. (4) The meeting appointed Steed, Sir Robert Whaley-Cohen, […]
[…] inspiration from media analysts such as Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman and campaigning journalists such as John Pilger. Their main, but not exclusive, focus is on the liberal newspapers, such as The Guardian and The Independent and the BBC. This is because the papers are allegedly writing from a viewpoint that is in some […]
