Newsinger on KItson

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[…] to be to one of camouflage rather than advancing our knowledge and understanding. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. David Burke, Kitson’s Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press, 2021). 8 […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

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[PDF file]: […] and that remains the case at the time of this essay’s publication. In the flush of panic that had flooded through the Washington DC establishment when Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, the permanent state tried to figure out what had gone wrong. Since America’s twoparty monopoly could not be faulted, its […]

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[…] and that remains the case at the time of this essay’s publication. In the flush of panic that had flooded through the Washington DC establishment when Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, the permanent state tried to figure out what had gone wrong. Since America’s twoparty monopoly could not be faulted, its […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] government is wholly incompetent. We can be confident that once his electoral usefulness has come to an end, Johnson will be dispensed with. This is what happened to Tommy the Red! John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks.

The Centre Must Hold: Why centrism is the answer to extremism and polarisation edited by Yair Zivan

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[PDF file]: […] IRA prior to the Good Friday Agreement – something that Thatcher would never have tolerated. 1 So far, so good. Who in their right mind wants Farage, Trump, Le Pen and their ilk bellowing their lies and hate speech in our ears? Having said that, how is it then that Centrism has such a […]

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[…] as was).24 Taibbi wrote: Groups like the CCDH often paralyze left-leaning political figures and media commentators by making them afraid to be lumped in with antivaxxers or Trump supporters. Only a few sharp reporters like Branko Marcetic of Jacobin, have had the vision to understand that ‘They’ll come for us next.’ In other words, […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

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[PDF file]: […] would have buckled in quite the same way that Callaghan did to bureaucratic and media pressure. He also accepts the ‘declinist’ context in which everything In 2017 Trump called Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt prior to contacting Theresa May. In 2021 Biden called Canada and Mexico prior […]

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[…] and that remains the case at the time of this essay’s publication. In the flush of panic that had flooded through the Washington DC establishment when Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, the permanent state tried to figure out what had gone wrong. Since America’s twoparty monopoly could not be faulted, its […]

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