[PDF file]: […] of leaks which also ‘thwarted many of the worst impulses of the new Trump administration Leaks alerted the world that President Trump had blabbed a crucial military secret to the Russian foreign minister. Leaks deterred the Trump administration from lifting sanctions on Russia as soon as it entered office’ (p. 171). As Frum observes, […]
[PDF file]: […] was not Clifford Longley, Chosen People: the Big Idea that Shapes England and America, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002) 3 4 4 paying attention. It was no secret that the European Iron and Steel Community, the forerunner to the EU, had motives wider than the purely economic. The main one was to make war […]
[PDF file]: […] 2005 appointment Watts says: ‘I couldn’t really believe what was happening. Labour, the party of government, was about to go bankrupt, and hardly anyone knew.’ 5 The secret donations by Labour Israel supporter David Abrahams were just one of the difficulties New Labour experienced. 6 Labour Party Annual Report 2017: ‘Last year we had […]
[PDF file]: […] And, of course, the New Labour government threw money at McKinsey for consultancy contracts ‘from the NHS to the defence ministry’, the total amount a closely guarded secret. 7 McKinsey’s relationship with government has continued under Cameron: William Hague used to work for them and was welcomed by the Economist as ‘the McKinsey Foreign […]
[PDF file]: […] apparently, Angleton took little interest in it. According to Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts Rafalko’s claim. 1 The Latin vale in the […]
[PDF file]: […] 9/11 are the outstanding examples. The other kinds of conspiracy theories, what we might loosely call the mega or meta theories, those blaming our ills on some secret organisation or other, are simply ignored. DeHaven claims that conspiracy theories are essentially ‘faction theories’. This may be true of event theories but not of the […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘Thunder Road’, a ‘shadow cabinet’ operating behind the scenes, made up of ‘billionaires and millionaires, politicians, consultants, academics and activists’. A hundred of these conspirators met in secret and each contributed a million dollars to a fund with which they could begin to ‘remake America’. (p. 10). They are intent on reviving the ‘lawless […]
