[…] BRITISH INTELLIGENCE BY IZVESTIYA (LE MONDE 22.12.68) *RELATED TO LORD BIRKENHEAD (FREDERICK WINSTON FURNEAUX SMITH) MARRIED TO HON SHEILA BERRY BESSELL, PETER JOSEPH B 24.8.21 REFORM, NATIONAL LIBERAL 1943-45 LECTURER TO HM FORCES MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 1956-60 LIBERAL EXEC. CONTESTED ELECTIONS 1964 LIBERAL MP 1967 PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION TO S VIETNAM 1967-68 NATIONAL PRES BROTHERHOOD […]
The view from the bridge Bilderberg and the EU The Diaries of former Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, (volume one 1988-1997, London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2000) is a pretty uninteresting read with a couple of striking sections. Pages 42-46 contain his account of attending a Bilderberg meeting – by far the longest and most detailed account […]
[…] ruling class in Britain, the British state would have put its carefully laid ‘counter-insurgency’ plans into operation with the same brutality it employed in colonial contexts. The Liberal Democratic Holocaust Of course Stalinism was a murderous system; but the British Empire, which so repelled Communists of Letty Norwood’s generation, has a few mountains of […]
[…] armies of fact-checkers and, indeed, the market for this sort of extended politico-analytical foray just does not exist over here. Writing from a New York Times ‘ liberal’ perspective, he remains – in contrast to Chomsky, Cockburn and Hitchens – very much the critical insider. In keeping with this stance, however, Hersh has an […]
Free Ride Department Meanwhile the Rand Corporation (that liberal think tank in Santa Monica which helps decide which Russian cities should be atom-bombed) has declared that the federal government must continue to support an obscure military satellite system known as Global Positioning Network. Much beloved by high-tech hikers and rental car enthusiasts, the GPS […]
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
[…] General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), 1948-57; General Secretary 1957-64. John Raeburn, past Secretary of London Trades Council. (58) Phillip Fothergill, ex-President of the the Liberal Party. Admiral Lord Cunningham (who as Chief of Staff had in 1945 threatened Attlee with resignation over defence policy.) And a coterie of other retired senior […]
John Ross Common Courage Press Monroe, Maine, 2000, $15.95 (pb) (www.commoncouragepress.com) John Ross is the foremost chronicler, in English, of modern Mexican history. He is particularly knowledgeable about the Zapatista movement and its revolutionary forerunners. In addition to the very good The Annexation of Mexico – from the Aztecs to the IMF, about said country’s … Read more
[…] two world wars, etc? I believe he worshipped power and for him the global power of European culture meant that it must be right. He was a liberal and believed that liberalism belief in freedom, rights, democracy, equality of women was essentially a European idea, linked to a ‘European structure of mind’ […]
[…] they included Alan Sked, who later split from it to launch the UK Independence Party. Sked, who began his political career as a parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Party in 1970, eventually left the UK Independence Party in 1998. He is an historian and published Britain’s Decline (1987) an extremely gloomy look at the […]
