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The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] East in the region’s search for a lasting peace with security 5. To further free trade throughout the world Somehow Mr Gardiner has not noticed that President Trump is opposed to all five of those goals. 1 <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/04/trump-hundred-days-triumph/ 1 *new* The Starmer mystery The always interesting Craig Murray wrote this recently: It remains my […]

View from the bridge

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[…] East in the region’s search for a lasting peace with security 5. To further free trade throughout the world Somehow Mr Gardiner has not noticed that President Trump is opposed to all five of those goals. 1 <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/04/trump-hundred-days-triumph/ 1 *new* The Starmer mystery The always interesting Craig Murray wrote this recently: It remains my […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

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[PDF file]: […] California Press, 2018) p. 95 7 5 Among the most venomous of Goldstone’s attackers was Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, a staunch Zionist and later a Trump supporter.8 He has written a number of books defending Israel and has two books forthcoming, with titles that tell you everything you need to know about […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants Colin Challen I At Labour’s annual conference in October Reeves vowed to introduce ‘tough new rules’ to ‘slash government consultancy spending’ in half if the party comes to power in the election expected this year. Government expenditure on consultants in core departments, including the Home Office and Ministry […]

Consultants Challen

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The long goodbye? Taking on the Consultants Colin Challen I At Labour’s annual conference in October Reeves vowed to introduce ‘tough new rules’ to ‘slash government consultancy spending’ in half if the party comes to power in the election expected this year. Government expenditure on consultants in core departments, including the Home Office and Ministry […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] only in Chapter 6, which looks at examples of factional conflict from the 1990s, that Raso commits to a clear position, claiming that both the Clinton and Trump Administrations were respectively targeted by the conservative and liberal oligarchical factions. Although, in the case of Trump, Raso stops short of directly accusing the ‘liberal power […]

On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre

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[PDF file]: ‘Epistemic homicide’ On Disinformation How to fight for truth and protect democracy Lee McIntyre Cambridge (Mass.) and London: MIT Press, 2023, (p/b) $14.95/£10.99 Robin Ramsay This is a short book of about 24,000 words on a very important and complex subject from an American perspective. So much of it is quotable, what follows is mostly […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

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[PDF file]: […] social issues designed to divide (race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, intersectionality) rather than on populist economic issues or criticisms of militarism. Useful for UK readers are summaries of the Trump political positions (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared […]

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