[…] story we want to go back over.’ Back over? On 4 July the Observer ran a third of a page on the political situation in Nigeria, ‘ New rules, new date, same old fraud on Babangida’s election.’ Roughly; for the first time the Northerners lost control in an election, so the army promptly ruled […]
John Smith: Old Labour’s lost leader? In non- New Labour Labour Party circles the late John Smith is remembered with great reverence.(1) Quite what this is based on escapes me. All I can identify is his dislike of Peter Mandelson: Smith kept him at bay therefore Smith was a good man seems to be […]
[…] is right there, at the hinge where business meets the politicians. Palast’s concerns are the main agenda: America, the power of the corporations; the institutions of the new world order – and, almost a sideshow, New Labour. In the last few years he has exposed the nature of the New Labour government in the […]
[…] countries like the UK to equilibrium in their external accounts.iPresident Nixon’s first CEA Chair, Paul McCracken, was sympathetic to monetarist ideas: the devotees of the Keynesian ‘ new economics’ were in retreat by this time. In the UK this process took much longer to work through (Sir Alec Cairncross, head of the Government Economic […]
[…] US strategic doctrine. In the early 1980s, the first period of neo-conservative dominance in US politics, analysts of international relations were struck by similarities between the ‘ new cold war’ prosecuted by the Reagan administration and the great power stand-off before August 1914.(2) In both cases scholars noted the influence of a ‘cult of […]
[…] US government during and after the Second World War, but rather at how they succeeded in effecting the integration of the Western European capitalist class into a new Atlantic alliance system The period 1945-50 is highly complex and debate still rages over the origin and nature of the ‘Cold War’: for example over the […]
[…] been started for the staffs of the East African forces going to Burma. Lengthy reports and descriptions of Pacific actions, Japanese tactics and weaponry received weekly from New Delhi, Melbourne, the U.S. Mission and Eastern Fleet were quickly analysed and turned into training and recognition aides by a team of Japanese speakers and experts. […]
[…] is hard to disagree with Jenkins’ comment: ‘This is bureaucracy gone mad. It embodies the over-regulated, service-quantified, risk-averse, publicity-obsessed style of government that has come to typify new Labour in government.’ Mad or bad? Jenkins’ piece raises the central question about this government: are they corrupt cynics or are they really the dummies they […]
Mandy, The Independent and Europe As pictures of H’Angus the Monkey, the new elected mayor of Hartlepool, filled the news pages, it emerged more quietly that the other public face of that poor North-East town, Peter Mandelson, had joined the international advisory board of News and Media, the owners of The Independent and The […]
[…] Kennedys set Mongoose going underneath everything. It looks like a contradiction. Is it? PDS: This is particularly complicated because the Church Committee chronology suggests that there were new operations authorised against Castro in June ’63, which, of course, seems to work against my thesis that they were learning to live with Castro. Let me […]
