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[…] Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the top of the back seat of […]

Who pays the piper? Funding the Labour Party

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[PDF file]: […] where, actually, I’m not sure we’re 6 getting the best value for it.’ 11 A worrying omen for Starmer? Colin Challen is a former Labour Party Organiser and MP. He is the author of The Price of Power: the secret funding of the Tory Party (London: Vision, 1998). He blogs at www.colinchallen.org. 11 or 7

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch

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[PDF file]: […] University Press, 2013, £17.99, p/b This is a ferocious book. The author, Douglas Porch, has written a number of very good books over the years (The French Secret Services, The Conquest of Morocco, The Conquest of the Sahara and more), but nothing quite like this. It was conceived, he tells us, ‘in the classrooms […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] November that files in the European Central Bank on Goldman Sachs’ role in faking Greek state debt figures to enable Greece to join the Euro will remain secret. The European Union 1 http://osb.revues.org/1115 general court in Luxembourg declared ‘Disclosure of those documents would have undermined the protection of the public interest so far as […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] November that files in the European Central Bank on Goldman Sachs’ role in faking Greek state debt figures to enable Greece to join the Euro will remain secret. The European Union general court in Luxembourg declared ‘Disclosure of those documents would have undermined the protection of the public interest so far as concerns the […]

Our Fight for Democracy: A History of Democracy in the United Kingdom by John Strafford

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[…] that I will bear true allegiance to the people, Parliament and democracy according to law.’ 14: The whole House of Commons should elect Select Committee chairmen by secret ballot, thus ending de facto appointment of chairmen by the party whips. 18: The people should directly elect the Prime Minister. He could be removed by […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[PDF file]: […] last showing that Bonhoeffer ‘battled not only the Nazis but the liberal Christians purportedly behind the rise of Nazism’. In his 2013 book 7 Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness, he discusses what a real man is and comes up with ‘John Wayne’. (p. 243) Initially, Metaxas was hostile to Donald Trump, but […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

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[PDF file]: […] and mock the thinking processes of those who advocate them. But in doing so academics and journalists are contaminating the good theories with the bad, lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff […]

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