[PDF file]: […] was enthusiastically embraced. Instead of rolling back the Thatcherite assault on the working class and the welfare state, they proceeded to consolidate it. This was what New Labour was all about. Certainly Brown made an original contribution to their partnership. It was he who recognised that the super rich could be persuaded to tolerate […]
[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.24 Among the Asia Foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, in 1975. Another significant article on the Did-the-US-use-biological-weaponsduring-Korean-War? question has appeared: Jeffrey S. Kaye’s ‘The Lights Were Blinking Red’,25 which […]
[…] office’. *new* The anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn The recent detailed account of the rise of Keir Starmer9 massively underplays the anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Friends of Israel get two passing references. The major media in this country is still unable or unwilling to present the episode honestly. And it’s not […]
[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.24 Among the Asia Foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, in 1975. Another significant article on the Did-the-US-use-biological-weaponsduring-Korean-War? question has appeared: Jeffrey S. Kaye’s ‘The Lights Were Blinking Red’,25 which […]
[PDF file]: […] from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s son Malcolm. Sarah is the oldest daughter of former Labour leader John Smith. The Robertson family were out in force with leading Labour lights in Scotland for Sarah’s own wedding in 2007 to US-born former soldier […]
[…] office’. *new* The anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn The recent detailed account of the rise of Keir Starmer26 massively underplays the anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Friends of Israel get two passing references. The major media in this country is still unable or or There are currently no British politicians listed as […]
[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.25 Among the Asia Foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, in 1975. This extract is from p. 300 of Christopher Andrew and Vasili Metrokhin, The KGB in Europe and the […]
[PDF file]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]
[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.6 Among the Asia foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975. Another significant article on the Did-the-US-use-biological-weaponsduring-Korean-War? question has appeared: Jeffrey S. Kaye’s ‘The Lights Were Blinking Red’,7 which concludes: By […]
[PDF file]: […] on the money supply – monetarism – and its centrality in government economic policy had become adopted by the Thatcher faction of the Conservative Party, apparently by Labour Prime Minister Callaghan2 4 and by sections of the higher media commentariat. In 1980 Friedman presented a series of hour long films with the umbrella title […]
