[…] but which is missing here. In these essays you can follow Vidal on the final stage of his journey from being a kind of patrician, cynical, left- liberal out into parapolitics and even into American conspiracy theory culture. ‘Revisionist historian’ has come to mean people who want to deny the reality of Hitler’s attempt […]
Many thanks, as always, to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions welcome. My email is ‘War on Terrorism’: Repercussions of 11 Sept. 2001 The Sept 11 2001 attacks on the US and subsequent ‘war against terrorism’ have provided law enforcement/intelligence agencies with an opportunity to push for sweeping new powers, plus fast-tracking of … Read more
[…] of it back from them. He sees the current situation as the outcome of struggle between factions of the American ruling class, between what he calls neo- liberal multilateralism and neo-conservative unilateralism. The multilateralists were exemplified by the Trilateral Commission who, in the 1970s, during Jimmy Carter’s term, had a go at creating a […]
[…] like the Libertarian Alliance are neither on the right nor the left. They are in another space entirely, with some positions traditionally associated with the left: a liberal attitude to personal behaviour and morality; others from the conservative right: the preeminence of private property rights and laissez faire economics; and others from the anarchist […]
[…] about whom little has appeared in the British press – is at Stevenson is the figure on the left of the picture that tops William Clark’s posting. Murray’s evidence can be viewed at Murray posts a lively blog at For the apology and Godson’s 2007 ‘Newsnight’ performance, see Sunny Hundal’s ‘ Liberal Conspiracy’ story at
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. All this has a very direct bearing on the career of Orlando Bosch, who boasts of having collaborated with the AAA in the murder of two Cuban diplomats as late as August 1976. (66) It is quite possible that this collaboration was facilitated through the international narcotics traffic, since … Read more
[…] armies of fact-checkers and, indeed, the market for this sort of extended politico-analytical foray just does not exist over here. Writing from a New York Times ‘ liberal’ perspective, he remains – in contrast to Chomsky, Cockburn and Hitchens – very much the critical insider. In keeping with this stance, however, Hersh has an […]
[…] class. In the week that the IRA announced its decommissioning amidst a Nuremberg-style rally in Dublin, I got into an interesting argument with one of my more liberal colleagues at Queens University. The woman in question was horrified that I saw decommissioning as a sham because IRA criminality meant they could buy new guns […]
[…] Hegel’s most effective pupil, might have built a theory of colonisation on this if he hadn’t shared many of the racial/racist assumptions of his contemporaries, including his liberal opponent, Mill. Mac Laughlin examines the growth of the notion of the ‘native’ in Ireland, with the concomitant fear of miscegenation. This is the root of […]
Nigel West London: Greenhill Books, 2006, £25, h/b The books of ‘West’ that I have read all have the same problem: he tells you that some of the material comes from past or present intelligence officers and hints that in those sections you are getting ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for … Read more
