Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

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[PDF file]: […] by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats (Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence that it was […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] the Freedom Association – whose membership consists entirely of far-right Tories (such as the loveable Christopher Chope) and UKIP figures – attacked the BBC for ‘plotting a Labour victory’ in order to protect its licence fee arrangements.33 Naturally, this piece was long on rhetoric and short on details of how the Corporation (which towers […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

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[PDF file]: […] had no problem with this despite being well aware of how the Japanese had cruelly mistreated POWs. It is worth noting that by now there was a Labour government in London, and it authorised the rearming and use of Japanese troops in Vietnam and Indonesia as well as in Laos! The fighting in Indonesia, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrant-friendly by downscaled 10 and outsourced whites.’ Substitute New Labour for Democrats . . . Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men,11 is a 10 11 Downloadable at . 4 Wallace, […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[PDF file]: […] are over consuming and a shift in the direction of innovative activity. At the global level, too much of the world’s innovation has been directed at saving labour and too little at saving natural resources and protecting the environment – hardly surprising given that prices do not reflect the sacristy of natural resources. There […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

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[PDF file]: […] process which involves ‘commissions’ is no big problem for business – in which ‘commissions’ are commonplace – but it has been for politicians, especially members of the Labour Party whose official ethos before messrs. Blair and Brown was something vaguely along the ‘merchants of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that […]

Britannia Unchained, by Kwasi Kwarteng , Elizabeth Truss et al

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[PDF file]: […] boom Britain could do no wrong. Its flexible economy flourished, easily outpacing the performance of our European neighbours. Never before had the country been so rich. New Labour could afford to pour record investment into public services, all paid for by taxes from world leading financial services. Waiting lists for hospitals continued to drop. […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

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[PDF file]: […] outraged. Their silence has even extended to Trump’s exonerating Kim from any responsibility for the death of Otto Warmbler, the American student sentenced to fifteen years hard labour in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian […]

The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth

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[PDF file]: The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine Bernard Regan London and New York: Verso, 2017, £16.99 ISBN 13 9781786632470 Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom Norman G Finkelstein Oakland (California): University of California Press, 2018, £27.95 ISBN 9780520295711 Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner London and New […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] US Army Intelligence retained much of its authority to spy on political dissidents, the increasing industrialisation catalysed by the war mobilisation created a greater threat from organised labour. Private industry had been able to suppress unionisation with its own private police and detective agencies, like Pinkerton. The rapid expansion caused by the war effort […]

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