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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
[PDF file]: […] 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 now […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.’ Ambition Lord save us from people who just want to be the big I-am. We had Gordon Brown, who wanted to be the Big Yin. Gordon joined Labour and apparently was a socialist. Then he sniffed the wind and realised that he had to […]
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer
[PDF file]: […] in Menzies and Churchill at War (London: Paragon House, 1987). Channon’s comments seem to bolster this assessment. 20 21 Her nickname was due to her thick, dark brown hair. 22 Channon had written The Ludwigs of Bavaria (1933), an account of the Wittlesbachs. 14 Given its date, was the message ‘Mrs Woolly well now […]
The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth
[PDF file]: […] part on the West Bank in three chapters. The first, ‘Can the Current Palestinian Leadership and Its Institutions End the Occupation?’ is led off by Nathan J Brown with responses by Diana Buttu and Glenn E Robinson. Subsequent chapters on Gaza follow the same formula, one chapter asking if Hamas can be part of […]
The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan
[PDF file]: […] of the Soviet bloc-NATO spy contest in the post-war years. For example: George Blake, Heinz Felfe, the putative post-war survival of ‘Gestapo’ Muller, an apparent clandestine Red- Brown post-war network called Hacke, and James Angleton’s curious fixation on the Soviet defector Anatoly Golitsyn. Apart from the Angleton-Golitsyn material, much of the rest of this […]
Angles Morts
[PDF file]: […] territory. I’m telling you now, if you don’t get those squaddies off the roof, none of you will be coming to the Thursday night disco in your brown boots and mufti.19 The firing duly ceased. At the City Hotel, with some tuition by Stanley Bonnett, the international press had perfected a confidential system of […]
Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?
[PDF file]: […] knew better than his superiors what the Arabs planned to do’.102 98 Golan (see note 90) p. 42. 99 Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, (New York: Little, Brown & Co.) 1982, p. 450. 100 Ibid. p. 459. 101 Alistair Horne, Kissinger’s Year: 1973 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009), p. 228. Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack […]
PERFIDIOUS ALBION: Britain and the Spanish Civil War
[PDF file]: […] and short-term definition of those interests. A great deal of UK capital was bound up in Spanish manufacturing, notably in shipbuilding where Vickers, Armstrong Whitworth, and John Brown held 40% of the capital and provided 5% of the workforce for the company Sociedad Espanola de Construccion Naval. There were many similar examples in mining, […]