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On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre
[PDF file]: […] dollars that have funded dozens of antidemocratic ‘election integrity’ projects (and also litigation), the support of conservative anti-vote candidates, and the Arizona recount itself. Mayer quotes US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who says, ‘It’s a massive covert operation run by a small group of billionaire elites. These are powerful interests with practically unlimited resources who […]
The View from the Bridge
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
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The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis
[PDF file]: […] the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. It was hardly a deliberate act of self–‘sheepdipping’, because RFK was indeed vehemently opposed to Communism. In any case Senator Joseph McCarthy was a family friend who had given RFK the role as a favour. But while this moment on the political centre-stage of the anxious […]
Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…
[PDF file]: […] a Labour government in place with a working majority until 2011-2012. Brown – who in Mattinson’s account is surrounded by US advisers and even calls an ailing Senator Edward Kennedy at one point to ask if a general election should be called in the UK – decided against an autumn 2007 general election.2 2 […]
Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all
[PDF file]: […] attempted to make public related to Nixon’s sabotage of the Paris peace talks held in late 1968, while Nixon was running for the presidency against Democratic challenger Senator Hubert Humphrey. Dr Kissinger’s breach of confidence – essentially betraying another traitor – unlocks the dark heart of the entire Watergate scandal. At the centre of […]