[…] that the by then divorced Mary Meyer became one of JFK’s sexual partners in the 1960s, may have increased Meyer’s animus.24 Despite having ended WW2 as a liberal internationalist, Meyer became an obsessive, even paranoid anti-communist and may have persuaded himself that JFK was a threat to the Republic.25 In his hand-written sketch of […]
[…] global hub for illicit finance and the ‘spy-cops’ scandal in the United Kingdom, covert operations, corporate collusion and state-criminal entanglements have demonstrably shaped political life in ostensibly liberal democracies. What with this and Dr Theo Kindynis,12 there are signs of life in British academic political studies. Google AI and our secret history I have […]
[PDF file]: […] supporting such a government. The following year (28 March 2001), he attended the launch of Adair Turner’s new book, Just Capitalism, at the LSE where ‘all the liberal New Labour crowd who like capitalism just fine and believe it will deliver social justice with just minor tweaks’ are present. He writes that there was […]
[PDF file]: […] intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal politicians. In this context it is a very striking list of speakers. Major Alexander Greenwood had been one of those preparing to meet the Communist ‘threat’ […]
[…] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]
[PDF file]: […] History and the Last Man’. In that – which I haven’t read – he argued that, with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the last challenge to liberal democracy was over. Uh-huh. I recently saw reference to another, more recent essay by Professor Fukuyama, with the intriguing title ‘In Defense of the deep state’. […]
