A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] It is only in Chapter 6, which looks at examples of factional conflict from the 1990s, that Raso commits to a clear position, claiming that both the Clinton and Trump Administrations were respectively targeted by the conservative and liberal oligarchical factions. Although, in the case of Trump, Raso stops short of directly accusing the […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

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[PDF file]: […] in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more gung ho than Clinton about bombing Iraq’. What surprised MacShane was that the targets ‘included the very centre of Baghdad’. He cannot have been that worried, however, because this entry […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

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[PDF file]: […] 78) And, while this real episode of paedophile rape and underage sex trafficking was taking place, the story being pushed by unofficial Republican sources was that Hillary Clinton was operating a paedophile ring, raping, murdering and eating children as part of a Satanic conspiracy to bring down America. The result was ‘Pizzagate’! This is […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

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[PDF file]: […] there’s big money for ex-leaders there, too. George W Bush has always had enormous family sources to draw upon from his father’s post-White House dealings, and Bill Clinton has reaped huge rewards from speechmaking around the world. And not just former presidents: Henry Kissinger is still making piles as a consultant almost 40 years […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

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[PDF file]: […] could join at some point in the future.12 However, Bush left office in January 1993 and under his two successors the position was transformed. In 1996 President Clinton openly advocated expanding NATO to include the members of the old Warsaw Pact. By 2005 Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, […]

Tittle-Tattle

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[PDF file]: Tittle-Tattle Tom Easton Balls to the wall The Daily Mirror neatly summed up the post-election fate of two of New Labour’s so-called big beasts when its 15 June headline read: ‘Ed Balls has a new job: Ex-shadow chancellor follows David Miliband to America after election defeat’.1 Milband’s job with the International Rescue Committee (see Lobsters […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

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[PDF file]: Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess Sherman McCall, Phillip R. Pittman, Richard Wahl, Francis Powers, Jan Cemper-Kiesslich * This paper refutes all objections to our DNA identification of Rudolf Hess.1 Inter alia we will: 1. Reveal the reporting error prompting many false charges. 2. Explain how Hess’s chest scars were overlooked. 3. Explain the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 36 Amen to that; but this is the man who, while its American correspondent, ran into the Telegraph all the nonsense coming out of the Republican’s anti- Clinton conspiracy. See . 37 Con Coughlin, ‘Can we still trust the CIA?’ at . ‘intelligence’ linking 9/11 to Iraq to provide the pretext for the invasion […]

Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

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[PDF file]: […] the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it was ever seriously weakened, the power of […]

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