[…] 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
[…] February 1995, to which I contributed. The Observer, to my amusement, edited out a reference to the fact that Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Liberal-Democrats, had attended Bilderberg meetings. This act, for non-UK readers not aware of the nuances of the British media-politician relationship, was probably done to defend Ashdown from criticism (presumably from […]
[…] Barclays (with Aims of Industry’s Gerald Mobbs) which helped staff Blair’s constituency office. Gordon Brown asked multimillionaire Taylor to drastically reform the benefit systems. Secretary of the Bilderberg conference,now chairman of WH Smith, he joined the IPPR and compiled their notorious Commission on PPPs which insisted there should be ‘no ideological barriers to private […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the idea that there is some conspiracy, usually associated with grey-haired, late middle-aged men put out to pasture from NATO and high office and ensconced in the Bilderberg group. We are looking in the wrong place. What we should be looking at is the increasing effort being taken into control of the institutional structure […]
See also: Part 1 in Lobster 36 ‘Certainly I do not think that the answer to communism is a counter-faith, equally fervent, militant, etc; to begin with, nothing is less likely to create a faith, than perpetual reiteration of the fact that we are looking for one, must find one, are lost without one, etc […]
