Kevin Coogan, Autonomedia, New York, 1999. $16.95 www.autonomedia.org When Francis Parker Yockey met his own personal Ernstfall with his typically vaudevillian suicide by cyanide pill, dressed only in his underpants and a pair of jack boots, it frustrated an eight year FBI manhunt for the ‘mystery man’. The impact of his gesture was no doubt … Read more
[…] term just then created by William Gibson in Neuromancer, his first masterpiece in a strange new genre of ‘cyberpunk’ fiction. It was ten years ago that establishment liberal David Burnham wrote The Rise of the Computer State with Ford, Rockefeller, and Aspen Institute money. This book ignored microprocessing and limited its nightmarish vision to […]
[…] ‘our European partners’. But the idea was that the UK would become a leader of the EU by virtue of it bearing the gospel of American neo- liberal ideas – the so-called Washington consensus. Hard though this may be to credit, the stupid schmucks really seem to have believed that the other EU leaders […]
This is an extract from a chapter called ‘Continuities of Empire’ from Pieterse’s forthcoming book Empire and Emancipation to be published by Praeger, New York. If the rest of the book is as good as this is, we are in for a treat. “So marked was the Anglo-American rapprochement that many informed people suspected a … Read more
The Robert Henderson/Tony Blair story. Having failed to persuade any section of the British political class then in power to do anything about a wrong he had suffered at the hands of the media, Robert Henderson wrote letters to the then Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair – 13 letters in all. This is Henderson’s […]
[…] to use the available information to make good decisions. The third is the innocence of Kahin himself. Kahin is described in the foreword as a New Deal liberal, who saw himself as a man of the left, but this didn’t prepare him for the reality of US foreign policy. I wanted this book mainly […]
[…] victory of the proletariat” which Marx had predicted almost 150 years earlier, there is instead the “inevitable process of globalisation” ‘Underneath public or learned notice, the traditional liberal conscience against claims of economic determinism and sacrificial restructuring of societies, always deemed totalitarian before, became silent.’ (p. 4) ‘Throughout the world reengineering by the global […]
[…] for Wilson and Marcia for the early death of her husband; the story that Gaitskell was murdered by the KGB; talk of engineering a split in the Liberal Party over the role of power-sharing with either of the other two parties; talk of engineering a split between Harold Wilson and the NEC of the […]
[…] but which is missing here. In these essays you can follow Vidal on the final stage of his journey from being a kind of patrician, cynical, left- liberal out into parapolitics and even into American conspiracy theory culture. ‘Revisionist historian’ has come to mean people who want to deny the reality of Hitler’s attempt […]
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina Uki Goni London: Granta Books, 2002, £20 If there was a category of work called Detective History, Uki Goni really ought to be awarded Book of the Year. Undeterred by the shredding and incineration of key documents, rebuffs from the supporters of Peron … Read more
