[…] Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) History […]
[…] 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]: […] higher risk (gambling). Banks’ profits, like their contribution to GDP, may have been flattered by the mis-measurement of risk….. this increase in risk was to some extent hidden by the opacity of accounting disclosures (Enron accounting; lying) or the complexity of the products involved….. ‘…..because banks are in the risk business it should be […]
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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar and Ministry of the Interior officials loading cocaine onto one of Escobar’s planes at Managua’s […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
