[…] spreading a politicised cultural ‘redevelopment’ purge of ‘old-fashioned’ left-wing people in positions of power in an effort to ‘modernise’. From 1990-92 Mulgan was special adviser to Gordon Brown when he was shadowing the Department of Trade and Industry, and became ‘the Clinton campaign’s link to Labour, which involved lots of telephone calls with the […]
[…] garbage. Let me leave poor Mr Draper aside for two other examples. Ben Lucas of Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn (known as ‘LLM’) learned that on June 11, Gordon Brown would announce the creation of a new housing inspectorate. Lucas passed this on to his affected clients. He gave me other examples of what he called […]
[…] of the provision of funds and the attempted coordination of goals.(30) What has not yet been made sufficiently clear is the full role and influence of Irving Brown in the setting-up of the CCF in 1950-51.(31) Brown held a crucial position within the ERP-CIA-AFL-CCF linkage. Saunders’ treatment of Brown as a useful CIA asset […]
[…] interview in Steamshovel Press, no. 8, 1993. Her version of the File is available from her direct at PO Box 1292, Cragsmoor, NY 12420, USA for $14.95. Brown, Walt. The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Carroll and Graf/Richard Gallen, 1992. xix plus 651 pp. Bibliography, index. An honest work that attempts to […]
At a CBI conference in November last year Gordon Brown called for a ‘world-wide campaign in support of globalisation and its benefits. He said the anti-globalisation and protectionist forces ‘fail to recognise the great truth that free trade, open markets and flexibility are the preconditions of modern economic success’.Does he really believe this? The […]
[…] Fizzland: the Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA’ in the American journal Labor History, vol. 39, No. 1, 1998 (pp. 25-42) Using the recently opened Irving Brown papers, as well as other new sources and interviews, Carew has plotted some of the activities of the CIA in the US and European labour movement […]
[…] Plan: Europe rebuilds with American money, buying American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the […]
[…] back then, and I seem to remember noting this in Lobster, it was Geoff Mulgan who was responsible for the Labour programme of re-nationalisation, while helping out Brown. Hindsight carries with it some sort tang of self-awareness and here it is not just our leaders that are flying blind. I’ve never found anything of […]
[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their […]
[…] and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest Gerald James Little and Brown, London, 1995(1) Some of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it […]
