[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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of these events. The thin white ghost Julian Assange fell out with the major media partly because of a culture clash between the radical hacker movement and liberal journalists; but mostly because he wanted to control how they handled the material. As everyone discovers eventually, you can’t do that: you give it to them […]
[PDF file]: […] Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths Mariana Mazzucato, London: Anthem Press, 2015 (2nd edition) Bartholomew Steer Robinson’s Bigger Government serves as an antidote to all those neo- liberal propagandists who preach the inevitability of the death of the state and the rise of the sovereign individual.1 It was chosen as one of the books […]
[PDF file]: […] that the by then divorced Mary Meyer became one of JFK’s sexual partners in the 1960s, may have increased Meyer’s animus.24 Despite having ended WW2 as a liberal internationalist, Meyer became an obsessive, even paranoid anti-communist and may have persuaded himself that JFK was a threat to the Republic.25 In his hand-written sketch of […]
[PDF file]: […] had been chaperoned and propagandised across the Soviet Union and ended up in Sweden, and were there welcomed by a country that prided itself on its progressive/ liberal stance on all matters that counted. Many more soldiers followed. What could go wrong? Well, plenty, as Sweet demonstrates in exhaustive detail (and backed up by […]
[PDF file]: […] first two chapters.3 Nixon believed that papers about those events leading up the 1968 election were held in the Brookings Institute in Washington, a bastion of (relatively) liberal thinking on foreign affairs. Nixon wanted Brookings burgled and the papers stolen. Nixon set the tone for ‘the plumbers’, the off-the-books Author interview at or . […]
[…] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]
[PDF file]: […] demonstrate his Christian faith, his great enemy Barack Obama was both a sincere and knowledgeable Christian. For the Christian Right, however, Obama was anathema. His was a liberal Christianity that had declared ‘war on Americans of faith’. (p. 112) For the Christian right, the Obama years had been a period of ‘unrelenting war on […]
