[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]
[PDF file]: […] identify this kind of journalism with the ‘tabloids’ or ‘boulevard press’. The US journalist I. F. Stone, beatified in the US by many who call themselves ‘ liberal’ or ‘left’, knew that propaganda and ‘yellow journalism’ was not a market cornered by the tabloids. His Hidden History of the Korean War is full of […]
[PDF file]: […] things which are considered acceptable elsewhere. So this question arises from a reading of The Palestine Laboratory: does Israel go beyond accepted norms (however unpalatable those ‘ liberal’ Western norms might be)? This is difficult. Recent history is littered with examples of ‘enlightened democracies’ feeding wars with their baleful technologies. Perhaps we need to […]
[PDF file]: […] redundancies. This article indicated that Brown, even at this early stage, had a conformist, centre-right outlook. He inveighed against the political left, radical shop stewards and ‘ liberal documentary makers’, seeing them as a distraction from what was properly a local matter which Scottish people alone should try and resolve. He also said that […]
[PDF file]: […] New Zealand. Contrary to the expectations of many of us that the global financial crisis would be seen as a conclusive judgement on the failures of neo- liberal doctrine, it is the Right that seems to have emerged, for the time being at least, unscathed and emboldened by the failure of their policies. It […]
[PDF file]: […] be temporary and discardable. Azov Battalion deputy commander Oleg Odnorozhenko said: ‘There is no cultural, ideological, overall, essential difference between the neo-Soviet project of Putin and the liberal project of the EU.’ He added that Azov would acquiesce in foreign assistance for convenience’s sake, stating that have no illusions about the EU, NATO and […]
[PDF file]: […] ever win?” Much the talk in political circles concerned the question of whether Britain might have become a oneparty state, along the lines of Japan, where the Liberal Democratic Party had been in power since 1955.’ There used to be a wisecrack along the lines of there having doubtless been an international summit to […]
