[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]: […] dodgy balloting put George W. in the White House in 2000, leading many to cry ‘foul!’ As the Financial Times recently observed, the prospect of a Bush/ Clinton race in next year’s presidential will mean that two families have effectively run the USA for just under 40 years (including George Bush Snr’s vice-presidency and […]
[PDF file]: […] in the manifesto would seem much less plausible. *new* Stoned One version of the thesis that the Russians hacked the Democratic Party’s computer and leaked all those Clinton emails is that Wikileaks got the hacked material from the Russians and passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, […]
[PDF file]: […] 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. The fact that Stone has apparently stiffed him over royalty payments may […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] although important, role. In the end, Blair lacked the nerve to call a vote. Mr Turner is acute in his observations of the Labour leader: ‘Unlike Bill Clinton, he was not a charismatic figure, but had learnt the trick of behaving as if he were.’ As for comparisons between Blair and Thatcher, there was […]
Misc reviews These reviews of mine were written for other publications. Robin Ramsay Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011, £20.00, h/b. After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and reexamining the previous inquiries, […]
Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
[PDF file]: 9/11 attracts new mainstream critics John Booth In the face of the dark horrors fed to us daily from the Middle East and Ukraine, one risks being deemed Pollyanna-ish to detect any comforting points of light. Who can draw much consolation when a UK Labour Government proscribes a direct-action pro-Palestine group as terrorists in the […]
[PDF file]: […] on Trump? Perhaps a clue can be found in the infamous meeting between Don Trump Jr. and the Russians who claimed to have compromising material on Hillary Clinton. The Trump team were sent a four-page memo ‘asserting that Democratic donors had allegedly evaded paying US taxes on Russian investments. They had been donors to […]
