[…] either efficient or fair, or is leading to the well-being of society.’ (p. 200). What Stiglitz is complaining about here is both the amount of taxpayer subsidy, hidden and overt which American business receives, from agricultural subsidies to the present gigantic banking bailout, and the general ability of corporate America to reduce competition through […]
[PDF file]: […] Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939 and Mark Mazower’s Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (London: Penguin, 2012) 17 6 points to the hidden assumptions of managerialism: that science can control nature, people can be controlled, and, most recently, that organization is best affected via the market as the most […]
[PDF file]: […] crime. 6 then the memoir proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material.
[PDF file]: […] There are indications – no, actually considerably more than mere indications – that some of the most infamous terrorist attacks of recent years were guided by a hidden hand with a degree of technical know-how beyond that of the bombers themselves. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, wasn’t actually capable of making the bombs […]
[…] proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went […]
[PDF file]: […] MP writes for Morning Star, therefore Labour MP is a communist sympathiser; therefore the Labour Party is communist. Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s big pamphlet in the mid 1970s, The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, was a classic of this kind. 37 Obviously I am describing a version of political correctness. The British Right lampoons the […]
[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]
[PDF file]: […] from interviews used by Cornelius Ryan – that I will briefly recount a little of what still largely remains to the British public a part of our hidden history. Urquhart recounts that in 1941 ‘Boy’ Browning, the youthful, ambitious and well-connected husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier (their daughter was later to marry Montgomery’s […]
[PDF file]: […] 7 Routledge (see note 4) p. 271 8 For summaries of Whitehall’s wartime anti-Sovietism and preparations for the post-war era, see for example, Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War secret intelligence (London: John Murray, 2001) chapter 2 or Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, (London: Fourth Estate, […]
[PDF file]: […] MI6 was monitoring Howard Marks and James McCann. In November 1973, Marks was arrested by the Dutch police for his part in smuggling cannabis to the US, hidden in loud speakers for rock concerts. Shortly before this, (according to the prosecution at his later trial in the UK) MI6 had severed contact with him. […]
