Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only a […]
[PDF file]: […] over the requirements of material sustenance and the drudgery of mindless wage work’.11 It was a vision which bore some striking similarities to Marx’s vision of a Communist society, where ‘society regulates the general production’ and scarcity would cease to 7 See his ‘A Short View of Russia’ in The Essential Keynes (see note […]
[PDF file]: […] on economic matters but seems to have fallen out of favour because his own large family was deemed offensive at the time of the ‘one-child’ policy. He also confirms that Harold Wilson was destabilised and made paranoid by rogue elements in the security forces who thought him a communist agent. But we all knew that.
[PDF file]: […] 15 16 Ligia Amancio ‘Trump e o pós-politicamente correcto’, Publico, 27 January 2017, p. 47 views with which they cannot agree. Nazis and the now largely defunct communist parties of what was once called the Soviet bloc are the only ones whose use of language was supposedly deceptive or simply dishonest. In what was […]
[PDF file]: […] efforts of a third Republican, the conservative commentator and former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson.3 And what in ‘voodoo history’ – the phrase is that of former Communist and Murdoch columnist David Aaronovitch – has brought this trio together? The events of September 11 2001. 4 When the three Manhattan towers came down almost […]
[PDF file]: […] across the world and at home. Book publishing, art, psychiatry, academia, student organisations, political parties, newspapers, magazines, charities and motion pictures were all incorporated into this anti- Communist crusade.1 And so was anthropology.2 In the first half of his book Professor Price assembles what is now known of the CIA’s (and the Pentagon’s) activities […]
[PDF file]: […] murders. Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti- communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS […]
[PDF file]: […] of NuLab at the top of greasy pole in 1997 was just business as usual. Since the early 1950s America had programmes to talent-spot throughout the non- communist world and promote the rising politicians it thought would support its interests. That Uncle Sam would do this here isn’t surprising: this island was its most […]
[PDF file]: […] American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non- communist left (NCL to use the Agency acronym), and nobbling those deemed to be too comm-symp (such as Neruda), with material aimed at the actual and potentially […]
