Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] chronicles much more of the soundtrack of the resistance, but he also pays attention to the rival soundtrack, to the singers who supported the Vietnam War. James Brown, for example, was enthusiastic about entertaining the troops in Vietnam. Although the authorities were very reluctant to let him do so, in June 1968 the tour […]

Kantor – Bilderbergers – 89

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[…] of Exclusion (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). 14 4 Kendall (see note 14) p. 49. 16 Kendall (see note 14) p. 112. 15 Cyrus Vance, Harold Brown, Michael Blumenthal, Henry Owen, Robert Bowie, Paul Volcker) received influential positions in his administration. Moreover, at least three World Bank presidents (Robert McNamara, Alden Clausen, Barber […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] of, the Kincora situation. This report listed a wide range of Loyalist politicians and other personalities, including Sir Knox Cunningham QC MP, Mr Clifford Smith, Mr David Brown (editor of the Rev. Ian Paisley’s newspaper, the Protestant Telegraph), Mr Thomas Passmore and the Rev. Martin Smyth, both key figures in the Orange Order. There […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[PDF file]: […] the authors’ attempts to identify ‘Wallace’. This was Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, they discovered, one of LBJ’s entourage. He was identified for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who lived in Dallas and had independently concluded that Wallace was involved in the dirty deed (although she had no evidence). There was one little detail […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Estes’ grandson.12 We can apparently hear Carter talking to Estes about Wallace and the assassination. The putative witness to that meeting of Carter and Estes, one Kyle Brown, unnamed by Estes in his memoir, had previously confirmed the conversation’s existence and some of its content.13 IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

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[PDF file]: […] Halifax, Foreign Secretary; Reginald Dorman-Smith, Minister of Agriculture; David Margesson, Secretary of State for War; Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor; Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour; William Morrison, Postmaster-General; and Lord Caldecote, Lord Chancellor.3 Among those not explicitly branded as guilty, but still retained, was Lord Reith, known for […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] took office in 1974. That narrative says that Labour politicians don’t understand the economy and can’t be trusted with it. This narrative had such power over Gordon Brown and Tony Blair that they spent the period in opposition from 199497 endlessly endorsing it and promising not to challenge its perceived prescriptions. When he was […]

The economic crisis

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[PDF file]: […] the world does not include political approval or disapproval. NuLab didn’t understand this. Their initial posture towards the City was fear mixed with buttkissing. As chancellor, Gordon Brown may have famously not worn the expected dinner suit for his address at the annual meeting of the City bigwigs, but as his central policy that […]

Off Message, and, Standing for Something

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[PDF file]: […] origin of New Labour is to be found in the historic defeats that the Thatcher government inflicted on the labour movement in the 1980s. Without these defeats, Brown would have remained on the left and Blair would never have become party leader. Marshall-Andrews’ own particular concerns are with New Labour’s colonial wars and its […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] depressing? That he really believed ‘the rising tide lifts all boats’ story before, or that he didn’t but was unwilling to say so until now? When Gordon Brown dips into the bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest […]

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