[…] Huey Long. Huey Long? The quasi-socialist Huey Long, not the friend-of-organised-crime Huey Long. The current Democratic Party’s timidity drives Palast nuts in the same way that the Labour Party used to drive people like me nuts, watching them afraid to make obvious points for fear of………who knows what. But the Democrats are all he’s […]
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When […]
John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004, $25.95, h/b ( £14.50 from Amazon.co.uk in January 2005) This is an interesting book, though it is not quite as interesting as it sounded in the interviews with the author which are on the Net. The key material is Perkins’ account of working as an economist for an […]
[…] States and Canada. Within this framework, on average about one-third are from the government sector and the remaining two-thirds from a variety of fields including finance, industry, labour, education and the media. Participants are solely invited for their knowledge, experience and standing and with reference to the topics on the agenda. All participants attend […]
[…] the Democrats willing to take before they conclude that attack may be the only form of defence? Notes I haven’t read the party’s history before 1960 and don’t know. A great deal of this critique of the Democrats – fear of the spooks and the media, for example – applied to the pre-Blair Labour Party.
[…] remake close relations with some of the leading trade unionists who left in ’57). If that had happened the New Left would have emerged as the non- Labour Party power base for left socialism. It would been not only less open to rightest propaganda but the fact that its organization was amorphous would have […]
[…] Leveller (Monochrome) April 1985 Political break-ins Friends of the Earth (Bristol) (Guardian 17 May 1985) Member of Clive Ponting law team (Times 14 March 1985) Leader of Labour group on Brent council (Guardian 19 January 1985) Cecil Woolf, publisher of books by Tam Dalyell among others (Guardian 21 February 1985) Member of Christian CND […]
[…] to decipher Israel,’ he says, ‘and if you wish to understand Israel, examine the world within which you live.’ But that apart, the views of the former Labour MP, whose father fled Germany in September 1939 and whose Hebron mother survived the Arab massacre 10 years earlier, could scarcely be more different. Burg is […]
[…] involved, and the failures of free market economics. For the reader educated by valuable past Lobster articles on the influence of the US lobby on embryonic New Labour (and since), the Reaganite doctrine that now animates the Bush administration and its speechwriters will seem familiar, and its influence in the UK even more transparent. […]
[…] global corporate culture and its corrosive effects upon the body politic of America. British corporate culture and its increasing ‘synergy’ with the structures of the state under Labour would benefit from similar scrutiny. Indeed such a study would be particularly timely given Tony Blair’s concerted attempt to dissolve the current democratic safeguards which prevent […]
