[…] Benn in his basement office that the Left (with which I retained some sympathy) could better win its battles on defence and foreign policy by associating with liberal middle class anxieties in this area, only to be patronised as only he can patronise. In the event, I was proved right. Social and political changes […]
[…] front as Readers Digest hack and archetypal American abroad innocently stumbling into the intrigues of the ‘Evil Empire’. Herman, Brodhead and Chomsky work with the Institute for Media Analysis (145 West Fourth St. New York 10012). After encountering their work you will never read your quality liberal daily in the same way again. David Black
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina Uki Goni London: Granta Books, 2002, £20 If there was a category of work called Detective History, Uki Goni really ought to be awarded Book of the Year. Undeterred by the shredding and incineration of key documents, rebuffs from the supporters of Peron … Read more
[…] became ‘fact’ and the ‘dollar gap’ was born. The major mystery of this episode is not that the right-wing should attempt such a fraud, but that the liberal wing of the American ruling elites, especially the New York end of it, should allow them to do so with so little protest. Almost the only […]
This is an extract from a chapter called ‘Continuities of Empire’ from Pieterse’s forthcoming book Empire and Emancipation to be published by Praeger, New York. If the rest of the book is as good as this is, we are in for a treat. “So marked was the Anglo-American rapprochement that many informed people suspected a … Read more
[…] West Yorkshire Coroner, ex p Smith’ QB 335. It is interesting to note that Al Fayed was represented by Michael Mansfield QC, one of the country’s more liberal and anti-establishment barristers whose previous clients include the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, and Stephen Lawrence’s parents. Nigel Rosser, ‘Fayed’s Diana inquest battle’, Evening Standard 24 […]
Since the Berlin Wall fell the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known … Read more
[…] to use the available information to make good decisions. The third is the innocence of Kahin himself. Kahin is described in the foreword as a New Deal liberal, who saw himself as a man of the left, but this didn’t prepare him for the reality of US foreign policy. I wanted this book mainly […]
Public relations, more usually referred to these days as ‘communications’, is a method used by organisations to explain themselves or issues, or sell a product/message/strategy. To create/manipulate their audiences’ various external environments so that these can prevail, sophisticated organisations firstly recognise competitor or negative PR; secondly, they counter it. The means by which they do … Read more
[…] even in these enlightened times – by the intelligence services. * * * Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk More on Colin Wallace (See Lobster 1). Liberal Peer, Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk, have joined forces to help prove his innocence. Avebury has written to witnesses who gave evidence at the […]
