The view from the bridge

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[…] struck me. A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the truth: ‘The truth is more taxes will be needed – […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] from school days with the publisher’s son and heir, Si. The political power Cohn enjoyed from his association with the Newhouse media empire, with its 22 newspapers, cable TV companies, and prestige magazines like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ, was ‘of inestimable value to Roy’, according to his biographer. In return, Cohn […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

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[PDF file]: […] a carpet in the deputy Labour leader’s house matched a carpet in the town hall.’19 Oyston had multiple business interests: from his property empire, through radio and cable television stations, to a modelling agency. It was the last of these that would be most directly used in his orchestrated downfall. Model Team, as it […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

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[PDF file]: […] to mark the occasion. A number of Republican Senators were invited. As the then British Ambassador to Washington DC, Kim Darroch, somewhat wryly observed: ‘Two of the cable news channels presented the event on a split screen: on one side, live coverage of the speeches marking the official opening; on the other the riots […]

Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] alleged anti-semitism.68 In a previous life Smeeth worked for BICOM, the Londonbased Israel lobby organisation, and was named as a ‘strictly protect’ source in a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.69 Both Aaronovitch and Smeeth have been frequent contributors to the Jewish Chronicle, a paper repeatedly found breaking defamation laws and publishing codes as […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

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[PDF file]: […] . . . . corruption soon became a defining feature of the government’. As early as September 2005, Ronald Neumann, the then U.S. Ambassador, sent a classified cable to Washington, warning of a ‘corruption crisis’ that was ‘a major threat to the country’s future’. He wanted President Hamid Karzai to remove some of the […]

A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’

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[PDF file]: […] Schroder’s and Lazard’s. In the second were executives from some of the nation’s most powerful corporations such ICI, Shell-Mex, the AngloIranian Oil Company (now known as BP), Cable and Wireless, and AEI (Associated Electrical Industries, then one of Britain’s major industrial groups). This coalition of forces, formed at the junction where the interests of […]

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