[…] ensure that corporate opinion prevails. (There are ten thousand corporate lobbyists in Brussels.) This is more evidential flesh on the thesis discussed in Mike Peters’ essay on Bilderberg and the EU in Lobster 32. Bilderberg, the European Round Table of Industrialists and their satellites, the PR firms – all are described and documented here […]
[…] the CFR, Bilderbergers and Trilateral Commission, Trilateralism (ed. Holly Sklar), which I had assumed was long out of print. Price is £15.95 plus 10% for postage. With Bilderberg guest Tony Blair in office, it is hard to imagine a more important single volume. Meanwhile, back on Planet Weird, is Newspeak, ‘a guide to alternative […]
Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003, £14.95 The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair Oakland (US) and Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £9.00/$12.95 The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century Scott … Read more
[…] February 1995, to which I contributed. The Observer, to my amusement, edited out a reference to the fact that Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Liberal-Democrats, had attended Bilderberg meetings. This act, for non-UK readers not aware of the nuances of the British media-politician relationship, was probably done to defend Ashdown from criticism (presumably from […]
[…] Barclays (with Aims of Industry’s Gerald Mobbs) which helped staff Blair’s constituency office. Gordon Brown asked multimillionaire Taylor to drastically reform the benefit systems. Secretary of the Bilderberg conference,nowchairman of WH Smith, he joined the IPPR and compiled their notorious Commission on PPPs which insisted there should be ‘no ideological barriers to private sector […]
[…] left power-structure research, and is now a staple on the populist, anti-elitist Right. In fact, the only inquiries we get at PIR these days on Trilateralism or Bilderberg are from right-wing researchers who are concerned about corruption and conspiracies from high places. Sklar is aware of this, but for her that means that the […]
[…] former operations head of SOE, Sir Colin Gubbins was also involved with the European Movement’s work. Retinger and Gubbins were together at the foundation meeting of the Bilderberg Group.) In the words of one exile leader, Retinger was ‘suspected of being in close touch not so much with British politics as with certain of […]
[…] of Edward Bernays; the formation of what the authors call ‘elite planning groups’, beginning with the Round Table in the early 1920s and thence into the CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral etc.; and the appearance of political warfare organisations, notably the Economic League in Britain, in response to the rise of the left. For left academics, […]
[…] by now.) Four of the Blair cabinet are alumni of the Anglo-American elite group the British American Project; three of the Blair cabinet have passed muster at Bilderberg meetings; and the entire Defence team in Blair’s first Cabinet in 1997 were members or associates of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Unity, […]
[…] from being some kind of social democrat to being the neo-con, free marketeer we see today. We know some of Brown’s journey in that period – to Bilderberg with John Smith, tutorials on the magic of the market from academics at Harvard, courtesy of Ed Balls – but we do not seem have an […]
