[PDF file]: […] US telephone calls and briefings and, rallying behind whoever is flavour of the month in respectable politics, would have found a way to drop the matter. But Trump is President, not Clinton. This hasn’t and won’t happen and – carrying on the football terminology – we are now resigning (or being expelled) from the […]
[…] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]
[…] the far right. Perversely, despite the anti-Semitic affinities of far-right authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Narendra Modi and former US president Donald Trump, these men are among those who came to be counted, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s closest allies. (p. 6) In the face of growing […]
[…] wealthy.10 And as it gets bigger, the cost of the borrowing rises. 9/11 Another pointed piece on the subject from Russ Baker.11 He writes that while President Trump was hobnobbing with the Saudis: Two men — directly connected to the 9/11 terrorists and the Saudi royal family — are living apparently normal lives under […]
[PDF file]: […] to Duncan, because this might compromise relations with the United States. Duncan wants the government to ‘assert our independent, confident view of the world by telling both Trump and Netanyahu to bugger off . . . But we will instead capitulate and be supine’. He tells Simon McDonald, a Permanent UnderSecretary at the FCO: […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
