[…] A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the truth: ‘The truth is more taxes will be needed – to contribute […]
[PDF file]: […] published in 2018. Here he continued his assault on Obama, bitterly complaining about the great majority of American Jews supporting the man by selfishly putting their ‘ liberal ideology and knee-jerk rejection of Republicans’ before their ‘attachment to Israel’. To their shame, they have embraced ‘a very misguided, selfdestructive version of bleeding-heart liberalism’. Obama’s […]
[PDF file]: […] is his first collection of essays. They began as book reviews, mostly for the New York Review of Books. Powers is what the Americans call a ‘ liberal’; but he is a liberal who has written a biography of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Since big time spooks won’t return your calls if you […]
[PDF file]: […] be taken seriously. In the end, the Red Scare motif comes out on top. For those who are only familiar with the past forty years of neo- liberal Britain, with the country being quite openly and unashamedly run for the benefit of the rich and super rich, he sets out to remind his readers […]
[…] and held by the majority of the population.14 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. […]
[…] called ‘the European rescue of the nation-state’. This nation-state was the post-war model, committed to full employment, economic growth, modernization and social justice. It was not the liberal version (basically a customs union) favoured by the US Government, which viewed the 1951 Coal and Steel Treaty with a mixture of relief (because it brought […]
[…] founded in Geneva in 1936, which has long been staunchly Zionist. . . . Reflecting the private sector orientation of much contemporary Zionist activism in the neo liberal era, the Global Coalition for Israel’s key architects called it ‘a public-private partnership’. The World Jewish Congress described it as ‘a cooperative and collaborative global approach […]
[PDF file]: […] identifiable at all. The UK opposition Some of the surgery Churchill performed is understandable. He was heading a coalition government and needed to bring in Labour and Liberal members. But he had choices about whom he dropped, and it is instructive to look at these. They included: the Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State […]
[…] founded in Geneva in 1936, which has long been staunchly Zionist. . . . Reflecting the private sector orientation of much contemporary Zionist activism in the neo liberal era, the Global Coalition for Israel’s key architects called it ‘a public-private partnership’. The World Jewish Congress described it as ‘a cooperative and collaborative global approach […]
