[PDF file]: […] outraged. Their silence has even extended to Trump’s exonerating Kim from any responsibility for the death of Otto Warmbler, the American student sentenced to fifteen years hard labour in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian […]
[PDF file]: […] are over consuming and a shift in the direction of innovative activity. At the global level, too much of the world’s innovation has been directed at saving labour and too little at saving natural resources and protecting the environment – hardly surprising given that prices do not reflect the sacristy of natural resources. The”re […]
[…] China. At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrantfriendly by downscaled and outsourced whites.’6 Substitute New Labour for Democrats….. Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men7 is a terrific account of the creation and effects of groupthink among […]
[PDF file]: […] daily from the Middle East and Ukraine, one risks being deemed Pollyanna-ish to detect any comforting points of light. Who can draw much consolation when a UK Labour Government proscribes a direct-action pro-Palestine group as terrorists in the same week that its staunchly uncritical Parliamentarians celebrate the direct action of the Suffragettes? But when […]
[PDF file]: […] not to bomb Libya – which, in keeping with the Western concept of democracy, happened two days after the bombing had started – the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband (former Energy Secretary), informed Parliament: ‘We do not seek commercial gain or geopolitical advantage, and we are not intending to occupy Libya or […]
[PDF file]: […] there’s no consideration of the bomb that exploded at the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade on Saturday, July 22 1916, which resulted in the finding of two labour leaders Billings and Mooney guilty of the outrage (only to be pardoned many years later when the state admitted there was no evidence of their participation […]
[PDF file]: […] there’s no consideration of the bomb that exploded at the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade on Saturday, July 22 1916, which resulted in the finding of two labour leaders Billings and Mooney guilty of the outrage (only to be pardoned many years later when the state admitted there was no evidence of their participation […]
[PDF file]: […] to interfere.’ Thus the opening paragraph by Kim Sengupta in his review of the Mark Curtis book, Secret Affairs.26 I wrote about political contamination in ‘Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites’ in Lobster 33. 25 or 26 10 Community? Whatever that means! Can you think of anything more vague or more useless? […]
[PDF file]: The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine Bernard Regan London and New York: Verso, 2017, £16.99 ISBN 13 9781786632470 Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom Norman G Finkelstein Oakland (California): University of California Press, 2018, £27.95 ISBN 9780520295711 Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner London and New […]
[PDF file]: […] critiques of the current U.S. economic crisis – e.g. the Monthly Review. Professor Gilpin of Princeton, whose authority is recognised by such establishment audiences as the Senate Labour Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations, has persuasively challenged Jerry J. Berman and Morton H. Halperin (eds) The Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies (Washington, the […]
[PDF file]: […] to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now Lord) Kinnock and Labour without mentioning Robert Maxwell and of New Labour without reference to Michael (now Lord) Levy and Jon (now Lord) Mendelsohn is a serious omission. Some readers […]
