Historical Notes: Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

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[PDF file]: […] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 33 See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret state (London: 4th Estate, 1991); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain (see note 33) ch. 4; and ‘Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

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[…] influence it has exerted in the past century. Such an account would start Page 89 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 with the pursuit of economic liberalism by Woodrow Wilson; his decision (while campaigning amongst various ethnic blocs resident in the US during the mid-term elections in 1918) to support the dismantling of Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]

Hess DNA: Round 14

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[PDF file]: […] London SE1 9LS March 20, 2020 Questions Arising from the New Scientist article of January 22, 2019: ‘Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory’ Dear Ms Wilson, I would like to bring to your attention an article published recently by one of the authors of the research paper that formed the basis of […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

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[PDF file]: […] Opus, made for the Expo 67 World Exhibition. A magnificent celebration of architecture, dance, art, drama and music, and very much the image of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD) is discussed in passing. […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

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[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]

Tittle-Tattle

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[PDF file]: […] that Progress is new Labour’s shock troops was a bit too much.’ The Progress strategy board includes Mandelson and Tony Blair’s successor in the Sedgefield constituency, Phil Wilson MP.5 Mandelson’s long-time associate, vice-chair of his Policy Network and frequent Guardian columnist, Patrick Diamond, is a co-opted board member. Former Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) […]

ValentinePiscesCIA

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[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

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[PDF file]: […] US foreign policy and the baleful influence it has exerted in the past century. Such an account would start with the pursuit of economic liberalism by Woodrow Wilson; his decision (while campaigning amongst various ethnic blocs resident in the US during the mid-term elections in 1918) to support the dismantling of Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany […]

Thatcher versus the City of London

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[PDF file]: […] irrelevant; I mean their grasp of our economic history and the structural conflict between domestic and overseas economies. The last prime minister to understand this was Harold Wilson. Edward Heath did economics as part of his undergraduate degree but was conned by the City and the Bank of England into passing the Competition and […]

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