States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

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[PDF file]: […] Great Reset coming out of the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations Agenda 2030.1 (emphasis added) The United Nations Agenda 20302 is a list of decent, liberal aspirations – ranging from the clearly defined ‘no poverty’ and ‘zero hunger’ to the more vague ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’, to which many governments could […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to Baldwin, Starmer certainly succeeded in breaking ‘a few of those bleeding liberal hearts’ while he was DPP, with his ‘left-wing critics’ claiming that he had ‘turned into a willing accomplice of a Tory-led government and an instrument of […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

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[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 […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

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[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted 
 (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to Baldwin, Starmer certainly succeeded in breaking ‘a few of those bleeding liberal hearts’ while he was DPP, with his ‘left-wing critics’ claiming that he had ‘turned into a willing accomplice of a Tory-led government and an instrument of […]

Tittle-Tattle

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[PDF file]: […] revealed in the expenses scandal.2 Balls and Miliband have returned to their roots in many ways. Both left Oxford to take US scholarships, returning with the neo liberal, neocon attitudes which outfitted them nicely to be spear carriers in the stage army that became New Labour. Miliband went into the think-tank world before No […]

Off Message, and, Standing for Something

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of how it was that once in power Blair and Brown ‘essentially maintained the old Thatcherite consensus’ and transformed the Labour Party from ‘being a force for liberal social democracy to one of illiberal neo-conservatism’. While there are some telling anecdotes, he is not really successful in explaining the zombiefication of the Labour Party. […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] properly, London) and elsewhere. If Islamist rebels make life too uncomfortable they can always go and live elsewhere. Indeed, she sees ‘kleptocracy’ as the way that so-called liberal democracies are moving. Altogether a very interesting and thought-provoking book. John Newsinger John Newsinger is a semi-retired academic. A new edition of his British Counterinsurgency is […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] Manning’s entrapment by Project Vigilant employee Adrian Lamo and Stratfor was ‘sexing-up’ the credibility of an incredible ‘plot’ to assassinate the Saudi 4 Lord Eric Avebury ( Liberal Democrat) to the author, November 2011 5 Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth, ‘Two Year Manhunt led to Killing of Awlaki in Yemen’, New […]

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[…] (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996) pp. 118 and 120 Tom Griffin, Hilary Aked, David Miller and Sarah Marusek, The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the “War on Terror”, 2015, p. 23 at or . See the review by Tom Easton in Lobster 70 at or . 3 […]

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