[…] 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 […]
[…] 29, 1994. On John Alexander see Lobster 25. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in 1973. On its board is Senator Pell. IONS is a liberal, New Age organisation with 40,000 members. On ‘Kit’ Green see UFO Magazine, Vol. 11 issue 3, ‘The Birds’. The USAF had been asked in February 1994 […]
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 […]
Greg Grandin New York: Metropolitan books, 2006, $25.00 Reviewing a biography of Harold Laski in 1953,([1]) the historian A. J. P. Taylor remarked on ‘the dilemma of our times’: that ‘no-one who believes in liberty can ever work sincerely with communists, or trust them, yet no-one who has socialism in his bones can ever … Read more
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] off preemptively in 1991; and there’s a clear if minority ‘humanitarian interventionist’ tradition in the party that goes back to the 1900s. (Then it was called ‘ liberal imperialism’. Phythian goes back some way before 1945 for the ‘roots’ of the ideologies he is describing, but not quite far enough to pick this up.) […]
