What was Henry Brandon? One of the most interesting secondary sources covering the struggles of the British Labour government under Harold Wilson to prevent the devaluation of sterling between 1964-66 is Henry Brandon’s In the Red, published by Andre Deutsch in 1966. It is a remarkably well-informed text and its reliability is underlined by the […]
[…] flagrant disregard for the divine law. Like the Birchers, evangelicals flocked to Goldwater’s disastrous Presidential campaign in 1964. In 1968 they came out in large numbers for Nixon, the man who seemed to champion the godly ‘silent majority’ against the long-hairs, hippies and freaks who opposed the war in Vietnam and wanted America to […]
[…] nothing. To call it ‘manipulated race war’ at the minimum we need some explanation and some evidence. We get neither. On the decision made under President Nixon to end the post-war system of fixed currencies and float the dollar, he writes: ‘The real architects of the Nixon strategy were in the influential City […]
[…] of today’s neo-conservative assault on the 1945 settlement. Something happened in the way that political managers of the global conservative community conducted themselves between the era of Nixon and the era of Reagan that enabled a covert war of aggression against communism to be pursued much more effectively in alliance with elements of the […]
[…] ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (15) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the slightest signs of understanding who it […]
[…] assumptions of the Cold War or the War on Terror isn’t going to win you a reputation for clear-eyed realism. It is one thing to believe that Nixon authorised the Watergate break-in (he didn’t), quite another to believe that Bush has done and is still doing, much, much worse. While it is conventional to […]
[PDF file]: […] – not with a bang but with what Nixon’s press secretary famously called a ‘third-rate burglary attempt’.2 In the ensuing years, more than 70 people in the Nixon administration would be convicted or plead guilty to crimes. Yet only a handful of convictions related to what gave the scandal its name: the June 17 […]
[…] and maintain the external value of sterling. Instead, Heath floated the pound. Nothing, not even the international value of sterling, was to get in the way. (President Nixon had already floated the dollar.) Heath’s gamble didn’t work for two reasons. In the first place, with no commercial or economic experience, Heath simply didn’t understand […]
[…] slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking tens of billions of dollars here.) If true, […]
Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political […]
