[…] not confront the institutions that orchestrate social and economic injustice. They seek to make the ruling class more palatable. With the support of the Democratic Party, the liberal media, academia and social media platforms in Silicon Valley, demonize the victims of the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with […]
[PDF file]: […] is his first collection of essays. They began as book reviews, mostly for the New York Review of Books. Powers is what the Americans call a ‘ liberal’; but he is a liberal who has written a biography of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Since big time spooks won’t return your calls if you […]
[…] is his first collection of essays. They began as book reviews, mostly for the New York Review of Books. Powers is what the Americans call a ‘ liberal’; but he is a liberal who has written a biography of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Since big time spooks won’t return your calls if you […]
[PDF file]: […] Steve Bannon, one of the Munk debate series, that took place in Toronto in 2018. Here he actually argued that ‘extreme inequality’ is a threat to ‘the liberal order’, that there are people whose massive accumulation of wealth gives then ‘power that in a liberal state nobody should have’. Reflecting on when he studied […]
[PDF file]: […] become a ‘leading shareholder in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corps’. (pp. 15-16, 53) All very interesting, as they say!3 But back to Musk. He started out as a liberal, supporting LGBTQ rights, in 2018 telling potential TESLA customers that if they did not like it they should In March 2018, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi […]
[…] become a ‘leading shareholder in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corps’. (pp. 15-16, 53) All very interesting, as they say!3 But back to Musk. He started out as a liberal, supporting LGBTQ rights, in 2018 telling potential TESLA customers that if they did not like it they should In March 2018, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi […]
[PDF file]: […] 1970 as a UK equivalent of Janis Joplin but never enjoyed comparable success. 5 Peter Hain had, originally, been a very active (and visible) campaigner for the Liberal Party but joined Labour in 1977. 6 Jenner organized a set of festivals in Hyde Park in the late ‘60s and initially managed The Pink Floyd. […]
[PDF file]: […] enough to oppose its loss and painful enough to prevent its occurrence. A division of labour emerged in the two wings of the US ruling party. The liberal wing devoted its energy to creating and maintaining the myth of what could be lost while the traditional wing (erroneously called ‘conservative’) became devoted to creating […]
[…] A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the truth: ‘The truth is more taxes will be needed – to contribute […]
[PDF file]: […] Chemical Workers Union); • Cecil Hallett (Assistant General Secretary of the AEU); • John Raeburn (ex-Secretary of the London Trades Council); • Phillip Fothergill (ex-President of the Liberal Party Organisation); • the Duchess of Atholl (at the time President of the British league for European Freedom); • Edward Hulton (publisher of the Picture Post […]
