Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

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[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 […]

Book reviews

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[…] He well understands the US dimension to New Labour, with both Brown and Balls apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less 192 Summer 2010 attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] could join at some point in the future.12 However, Bush left office in January 1993 and under his two successors the position was transformed. In 1996 President Clinton openly advocated expanding NATO to include the members of the old Warsaw Pact. By 2005 Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, […]

The Colonel and I: My Life With Gaddafi by Daad Sharab

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[PDF file]: […] for him. ‘By the end of 2009 I had three bulky dossiers in my briefcase – on my arduous visit to India; my productive dinner with Hilary Clinton; and the clandestine trip to Tel Aviv to meet Shimon Peres – to present to the Colonel.’ (p. 164) She never met the Colonel again. Ten […]

General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.

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[PDF file]: […] of his examination of Joseph A. Milteer and Willie Somersett; of Clay Shaw, Kerry Thornley and Gordon Novel; of General Walker’s life and times; and Oswald in Clinton, to mention but several. Years ago the Hollywood trade paper Variety would describe a brilliant failure as a flop d’estime, and it is a term that […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

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[PDF file]: […] Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration (Simon and Schuster, 2019, p. 281). 3 A prolific writer, his publications include the influential The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, first published in 2006, but reissued in 2016. He has also published an avalanche of proTrump books: […]

Books on New Labour

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[PDF file]: […] He well understands the US dimension to New Labour, with both Brown and Balls apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely post-manufacturing islands […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

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[PDF file]: […] has employed an Israeli ex-military intelligence official as Labour’s ‘social listening and media organising manager’. See or . 5 Marc Rich was famously pardoned by President Bill Clinton in January 2001, on his final day in the White House. Rich’s Wikipedia entry tells some of the story of Duncan’s former employer . 6 A […]

The Centre Must Hold: Why centrism is the answer to extremism and polarisation edited by Yair Zivan

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[PDF file]: […] from conflicting perspectives’. (p. 57) From the various contributions I detect, however, that the people best placed to do this may be regarded as ‘centre-left’, such as Clinton, Blair, Macron and Biden. But honours can occasionally go to non-left figures such as John Major, who was prepared to countenance contacts with the IRA prior […]

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