[…] left power-structure research, and is now a staple on the populist, anti-elitist Right. In fact, the only inquiries we get at PIR these days on Trilateralism or Bilderberg are from right-wing researchers who are concerned about corruption and conspiracies from high places. Sklar is aware of this, but for her that means that the […]
[…] former operations head of SOE, Sir Colin Gubbins was also involved with the European Movement’s work. Retinger and Gubbins were together at the foundation meeting of the Bilderberg Group.) In the words of one exile leader, Retinger was ‘suspected of being in close touch not so much with British politics as with certain of […]
[…] to America that are available for promising MPs and came back a supporter of the nuclear deterent. In 1993 he went to a meeting of the secretive Bilderberg Group, one of the meeting places of the European-American elite. (John Monks, an important Blair ally as head of the TUC, attended this year’s ie 1996 […]
[…] FOIA; other web resources. POLITICS AND FOI Washington Brief http://www.wbrief.com Editor Alan Simpson. Includes Intelligence Newswatch; intelligence bibliography; Spies Bookstore; NewsSearch facility; FAQ; Glossary; Good intelligence links. Bilderberg 2000 http://www.bilderberg.org/2000.htm Report on the June 2000 meeting in Brussels; participant list, etc British Politics Pages http://www.ukpol.co.uk Massive archive with links to 2,500 political sites. Includes […]
[…] then rebutting the loony fringe – Masons, Illuminati etc. – Who Really Runs the World moves onto the Round Table and thence into the CFR, Trilateralists and Bilderberg. The authors’ positions are very similar to mine: CFR, Trilaterals and Bilderberg are important but they are not the executive committee(s) of global capital. From here […]
[…] ensure that corporate opinion prevails. (There are ten thousand corporate lobbyists in Brussels.) This is more evidential flesh on the thesis discussed in Mike Peters’ essay on Bilderberg and the EU in Lobster 32. Bilderberg, the European Round Table of Industrialists and their satellites, the PR firms – all are described and documented here […]
[…] the CFR, Bilderbergers and Trilateral Commission, Trilateralism (ed. Holly Sklar), which I had assumed was long out of print. Price is £15.95 plus 10% for postage. With Bilderberg guest Tony Blair in office, it is hard to imagine a more important single volume. Meanwhile, back on Planet Weird, is Newspeak, ‘a guide to alternative […]
Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003, £14.95 The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair Oakland (US) and Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £9.00/$12.95 The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century Scott … Read more
Kevin Coogan is the author of the study of the American fascist Francis Parker Yockey, Dreamer of the Day, reviewed in Lobster 39. He sent me an essay primarily about the American far-right group the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within … Read more
[…] Lobster is one – the institutions of American political power are in Healey’s own account of his life, The Time of My Life: the Ford Foundation, the Bilderberg conferences and the Congress for Cultural Freedom are in Healey but not in Pearce. Sam Berger, the US labour attaché in London is described as such […]
