[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] election campaign for his first term had begun, Stone registered a donation-seeking website called StoptheSteal.org and used it to pump out claims that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton would cheat to win the election if the results looked too close to call. Which was exactly what George W. Bush had been accused of doing […]
[PDF file]: The Dispossessed The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival Christophe Guilluy Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, p/b, £15 (approx.) Simon Matthews This slim volume, 133 pages, is by a French geographer,1 who has developed a theory of ‘peripheral France’. He comments on the growth in holiday homes by the coast, and the use of properties […]
[PDF file]: […] there’s big money for ex-leaders there, too. George W Bush has always had enormous family sources to draw upon from his father’s post-White House dealings, and Bill Clinton has reaped huge rewards from speechmaking around the world. And not just former presidents: Henry Kissinger is still making piles as a consultant almost 40 years […]
The Dispossessed The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival Christophe Guilluy Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, p/b, £15 (approx.) Simon Matthews This slim volume, 133 pages, is by a French geographer,1 who has developed a theory of ‘peripheral France’. He comments on the growth in holiday homes by the coast, and the use of properties […]
[PDF file]: […] wrong-footed by the Goldstone Report’s findings. The Obama administration in Washington DC made clear its rejection of the Report from the very beginning. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would later boast of how she had ‘defended Israel from isolation . . . including opposing the biased Goldstone report’.13 Labour were caught out, however, and […]
[PDF file]: Tittle-Tattle Tom Easton Balls to the wall The Daily Mirror neatly summed up the post-election fate of two of New Labour’s so-called big beasts when its 15 June headline read: ‘Ed Balls has a new job: Ex-shadow chancellor follows David Miliband to America after election defeat’.1 Milband’s job with the International Rescue Committee (see Lobsters […]
[PDF file]: […] Africa.’ 7 Turki had mentioned the Safari Club in a 2002 speech at his old university in Washington DC. Prince Turki and the future US president Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate […]
[…] Africa.’ 7 Turki had mentioned the Safari Club in a 2002 speech at his old university in Washington DC. Prince Turki and the future US president Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate […]
