[…] his relationship with the notorious Roger Stone. According to Morrow, he wrote most of two of Stone’s books, The Clintons’ War on Women, the attack on Hilary Clinton they co-authored, and Stone’s version of the LBJ-dunnit thesis, The Man Who Killed Kennedy.5 The fact that Stone has apparently stiffed him over royalty payments may […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Consider C. Wright Mills, probably the first American scholar to bother tracking the elites in the US and to theorise about decision-making outside the formal legitimising rituals of elections etc. His 1956 book the Power Elite […]
[PDF file]: […] remotely justified by the by material he has presented. If you read nothing else mentioned in these columns, read this. The Atlantic semantic71 The exchanges between President Clinton and Tony Blair,72 much trumpeted by the major media, contain almost nothing of interest because most of what Blair said has been redacted. But there was […]
[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must for editing/proof-reading help. Bernie or bust If you were wondering why so many of Bernie Sanders’ supporters are hostile to Hilary Clinton (of course the MSM haven’t explained it), you could look at the long report showing how the Clinton campaign stole the nomination from Sanders. Yes, stole. […]
[PDF file]: […] Government should consider pensioning off the whole of MI6 and hiring Patrick Cockburn instead’. The second is a quote from one of Sydney Blumenthal’s e-mails to Hilary Clinton when she was Secretary of State, that Cockburn ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather […]
[PDF file]: […] Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and […]
[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Mrs Mopp and the ‘wet jobs’ The ‘review’ of the Freedom of Information Act is in the news as I write and I don’t think anyone who cares passionately about the Act can be under any illusions about the result this review is expected to produce. (In his autobiography Tony Blair […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse […]
[PDF file]: […] helicopter lifted off of the roof of the Saigon embassy compound before the ‘loser’ extended full diplomatic recognition to the country that had defeated it. President William Clinton was quoted as saying that the time was at hand ‘to bind up our wounds’.6 2 Never mind that President Clinton avoided the draft and any […]
[PDF file]: […] late 2007-early 2008: for example, one could simply read the July 9 2007 issue of Fortune magazine to discover who the major backers of John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama were. One could also have read Business Week (25 February 2008) or the Los Angeles Times of 21 March 2008. Through February 2008 […]
