The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At its […]
[PDF file]: […] we look back at a time when the talk was more important than the walk, and when scruffy entrepreneurs were courted by greedy venture capitalists, their ties hidden in their pockets.’ The crash was even more severe on Wall Street, and in an ominous foretaste of what was to come, the Federal Reserve Board […]
[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]
[PDF file]: […] either efficient or fair, or is leading to the well-being of society.’ (p. 200). What Stiglitz is complaining about here is both the amount of taxpayer subsidy, hidden and overt which American business receives, from agricultural subsidies to the present gigantic banking bailout, and the general ability of corporate America to reduce competition through […]
[…] plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish […]
[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* The Skripal inquiry Or, more accurately, the inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who died after absorbing novichok in Salisbury. Some of the inquiry’s proceedings are available. As you would expect, most of it is of little interest but there was this oddity. Below is part […]
[PDF file]: […] core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice president Johnson. This is a story about American politics and business and what happens when the hidden business funding is threatened with exposure. When the story of Estes’ business dealings began to surface nationally in 1962 after reports in a local Texas paper, […]
[PDF file]: […] are adept at collecting and controlling such information – such as law enforcement, spies, private eyes, journalists and lawyers – thus play a key role in the hidden campaigns of the deep state. One perverse measure of the importance of sex in America’s ‘deep politics’ is the paucity of systematic attention paid to it […]
[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]
