The View from the Bridge
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In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
[PDF file]: […] play; and a different public opinion from Britain’s, whose once proud popular anti-spy tradition seems to have evaporated almost entirely. If the US can exercise a more liberal influence on Britain here, it will be an interesting twist in the long history of their ‘special’ intelligence relationship. Otherwise – and this seems an extraordinary […]
The View from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]
Friends of Israel
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
The view from the bridge
[…] 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 […]
Misc reviews
[…] 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 […]
The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] 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. […]
Friends of Israel Booth PDF
[…] 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 […]
Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture
[PDF file]: […] which do not necessarily meet, or which do not even derive from the same first principles. If that were the case, then almost all mainstream left and liberal discourse in the US would collapse. Bruce Cumings wrote a long history of the origins of the Korean War3 in which he said clearly that there […]
The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941
[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 […]