The view from the bridge

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[…] way that the 1975 showing of the Zapruder film on US TV was: after the Z film the official version that all the shots came from behind Kennedy became an absurdity. After ‘the lobby’ films no-one can seriously deny the existence of the Israel lobby. The future of Britain’s crisis30 The House of Commons […]

Peer group pressure

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[PDF file]: […] Most of them are ex-MPs who will have been frustrated with their former colleague’s wayward ways. It is worth noting at this point that another peer, Baroness Kennedy of Cradley, lists being chief of staff to Tom Watson MP, the anti-Corbyn deputy leader of the party, as a remunerated position. Her husband is Baron […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

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[PDF file]: Treasure Islands Tax havens and the men who stole the world Nicholas Shaxson London: the Bodley Head, 2011, £14.99, p/b ‘Reading Treasure Islands I have realised that injustice is no perversion of the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it […]

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[…] uses the word ‘oil’ once. By their omissions . . . . *new* Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran.5 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

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[PDF file]: […] But this rhetoric is not matched by analysis of some of the historical events. The biggest threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] way that the 1975 showing of the Zapruder film on US TV was: after the Z film the official version that all the shots came from behind Kennedy became an absurdity. After ‘the lobby’ films no-one can seriously deny the existence of the Israel lobby. The future of Britain’s crisis31 The House of Commons […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Pat Buchanan?32 A fake arms race? Larry Hancock is probably best known to readers of this column as the author of a very good book on the Kennedy assassination, Someone Would Have Talked.33 But he writes on a wide range of issues and his perceptions of the geopolitical world are always interesting. In a […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

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[PDF file]: The David Kelly mystery John Booth An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising […]

Well, how did we get here?

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[PDF file]: […] other Labour personnel, including Yvette Cooper, whom Balls later married, and David Miliband, head of Blair’s policy unit, Balls had spent a year in America as a Kennedy Scholar.6 3 By 1994 the long-delayed implementation of the 1952 Robot plan – the British economy open to the world and controlled solely by interest rates […]

Reporting Trump

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[PDF file]: […] . . appeared to joke about gun lovers assassinating Hillary Clinton, and called President Obama “the founder of ISIS” and linked Senator Ted Cruz’s father to the Kennedy assassination’. (p. 202) There had never been anything like this. It is ‘All of it. Utterly. Inescapably. Completely. Unbelievable.’ (p. 5). Her chronicle of the Trump […]

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