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The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs
Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA
[PDF file]: […] from school days with the publisher’s son and heir, Si. The political power Cohn enjoyed from his association with the Newhouse media empire, with its 22 newspapers, cable TV companies, and prestige magazines like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ, was ‘of inestimable value to Roy’, according to his biographer. In return, Cohn […]
The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] that goes on. I look at the mainstream parties for signs that they grasp any of this. Michael Meacher does, but his voice has no weight.10 Vince Cable does, but mostly stays schtum. Career first, eh Vince? (But he’s a politician: that’s a given.) Occasionally Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chukka Umanna shows signs of […]
The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] struck me. A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the Text at . The original text is no longer on […]
Apocryphylia
[PDF file]: […] with an account of his meeting Hetty Bower (at 107, the oldest living Labour Party member) who had regaled him with her recollections of the Battle of Cable Street, and how she had taken part in blocking the attempt by the British Union of Fascists to march through east London.7 Reaching a climax, Milliband […]
The Clandestine Caucus
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[PDF file]: […] Ferris, p. 85. Engineering Voice, March 1969, reported a two-day conference of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, at which were H. E. Matthews, a director of Cable and Wireless and some time director of IRIS, and Andy McKeown of IRIS. Keating quotes McKeown as suggesting that originally IRIS was anti-Catholic because ‘Freemasonry’ had […]
What if…
[PDF file]: […] Housing Minister. The number of institutions entitled to call themselves universities was halved to preserve excellence. Britons were denied the right to see new fangled satellite and cable television on the grounds that, as the Home Secretary Francis Pym put it, this would undermine the BBC and threaten our great English literary culture. Rupert […]