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Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era
Assange again
[PDF file]: […] ‘caddish’ behaviour towards the women who fall for his (undoubted) charm. I’m also not at all convinced that all his Wikileaks revelations were politically justified, even in liberal terms; or that governments should not be allowed some degree of strict confidentiality to pursue delicate negotiations. Enter Marianne Ny N one of this, however, bears […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] History and the Last Man’. In that – which I haven’t read – he argued that, with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the last challenge to liberal democracy was over. Uh-huh. I recently saw reference to another, more recent essay by Professor Fukuyama, with the intriguing title ‘In Defense of the deep state’. […]
Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA
[…] first two chapters.3 Nixon believed that papers about those events leading up the 1968 election were held in the Brookings Institute in Washington, a bastion of (relatively) liberal thinking on foreign affairs. Nixon wanted Brookings burgled and the papers stolen. Nixon set the tone for ‘the plumbers’, the off-the-books Author interview at or . […]
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1976 and all that: the IMF incident
[PDF file]: […] Manifesto is a manual for suicide . . . . they are constantly in touch with our people saying, “Don’t bale these bastards out.”’9 In November 1976 Liberal MP John Pardoe stated that ‘he had received reliable reports that a number of people from Britain representing both Treasury and City interests had at that […]
View from 93
[…] global hub for illicit finance and the ‘spy-cops’ scandal in the United Kingdom, covert operations, corporate collusion and state-criminal entanglements have demonstrably shaped political life in ostensibly liberal democracies. What with this and Dr Theo Kindynis,3 there are signs of life in British academic political studies. *new* Google AI and our secret history I […]
lob81-british-gladio2
[…] intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal politicians. In this context it is a very striking list of speakers. Major Alexander Greenwood had been one of those preparing to meet the Communist ‘threat’ […]