[…] one or two on his time at St Antony’s College (as a ‘parliamentary fellow’). There is also a section (pp. 336-7) on his attendance at the 1995 Bilderberg conference. Of this he writes: ‘I am sent by the Blair office as none of the front-line Labour spokesmen can go’. Oddly – or not – […]
[PDF file]: […] IMF and the UN Lukas Kantor Since 2019, the EU, NATO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the UN have been chaired by people who attended confidential Bilderberg conferences prior to their appointment. In the EU, Bilderbergers also occupy other top positions: head of the European Council, European Central Bank and Eurogroup. French President […]
[PDF file]: […] Once again, a publisher’s desire for an eye-catching title has led to an anticlimax. Jeffers goes out of his way to provide a balanced judgement on the Bilderberg group1 of high-ranking businessmen, politicians and others who meet annually to hold secret discussions about how the world should be run. Certainly there’s enough evidence in […]
[PDF file]: Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs Ian N. Richardson, Andrew P. Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse London: Routledge, 2011; 218 pages, notes, index; p/b, £20.99 T wenty-two years after Denis Healey wrote about Bilderberg in his memoir The Time of My Life, the English-speaking academic world has finally produced something on […]
[…] street level gangster version is this: the gangsters don’t go round preaching to their victims that the beating and expropriation is going to be good for them! Bilderberg news The Sunday Times of 13 January 2000 ran a piece, ‘Stop the New World Order, they want to get off’, attacking those who oppose the […]
Bilderberg Originally given as a paper at the British Association for American Studies 2002 Annual Postgraduate Conference, this draws on newly available archival evidence to document the origins of the Bilderberg Group. It also considers the various conspiracy theories which have attached themselves to the Group. Is it a CIA plot to undermine […]
[…] of influence’ under British direction. Valerie Aubourg illustrated how the informal networks of the US-European elite produced influential forums for idea-sharing such as the Atlantic Institute and Bilderberg. Bilderberg had a major Benelux input, with Josef Retinger utilising his contacts with the Dutch and Belgian political and economic elite (Rijkens, van Zeeland, van Kleffens) […]
The view from the bridge Bilderberg and the EU The Diaries of former Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, (volume one 1988-1997, London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2000) is a pretty uninteresting read with a couple of striking sections. Pages 42-46 contain his account of attending a Bilderberg meeting – by far the longest and most detailed […]
From Dan J. Bye Following up a note in the latest Lobster re: ‘ Bilderberg’ appearing in the index but not in the text of Clinton’s autobiography, I thought I’d try out Amazon.com’s ‘search inside’ facility. () Still no ‘Bilderberg’. I also noticed the review of part 3 of Stuart Christie’s illustrated biography. I’ve […]
[…] tune. Over a much wider field than Saunders, with chapters on IRD, the New Leader, labor diplomats (American labor attachés), the European Movement and the creation of Bilderberg, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Encounter/, Wilford questions the conclusion of the musical metaphor. Some of this is familiar; some familiar but with new sources; […]
