[…] – or complicit? Business accounting scandals, which the Democrats said numbered 993 and involved $1.276 trillion dollars worth of dodgy corporate bottom lines by the time Bill Clinton replaced Bush Snr., continued to go unchecked throughout the Clinton years. The Democratic National Committee asserted: ‘While Democrats fought to rein in deceptive business practices in […]
[…] marked by political disappointment for the evangelicals. Federal funding for their organisations was reduced, the Christian Coalition was stripped of its charitable status and the centrist Democrat Clinton romped to victory in 1996. In Clinton’s second term the Lewinsky scandal and the subsequent investigations did considerable harm to Clinton’s reputation in the country and […]
From Dan J. Bye Following up a note in the latest Lobster re: ‘Bilderberg’ appearing in the index but not in the text of Clinton’s autobiography, I thought I’d try out Amazon.com’s ‘search inside’ facility. () Still no ‘Bilderberg’. I also noticed the review of part 3 of Stuart Christie’s illustrated biography. I’ve got the […]
[…] suicide,” he said. “I know how these bastards think . .”‘ (2) Syd’s tell Although essentially a hagiography, Sydney Blumenthal’s 800 page memoir of life at the Clinton White House, The Clinton Wars (London: Viking, 2003), contains a very interesting account of the enormous efforts (and expense) by the Republicans and their corporate supporters […]
[PDF file]: My Turn Hillary Clinton targets the presidency Doug Henwood OR Books: London and New York, 2015, £10/$15, p/b T here cannot be many people perusing these columns who have much interest left in Hillary Clinton. If you think of her as a careerist, corporate hack, your prejudices about her will be confirmed by this […]
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
[…] of Brown’s wife; and bought the New Statesman, saving it from being absorbed by the Blair gang. On pp. 69/70 he tells us that Brown met Bill Clinton at Baden-Baden in Germany. From the context this is 1989. (Bower is vague on the details.) I think this is wrong. Brown met Clinton when both […]
[…] ironically this was in the run-up to the presidential elections the following year all the leading Republican candidates for the presidency had called on President Clinton to stop all Ex-Im Bank loans to Russia.(42) The taxpayer will therefore still underwrite the risk and Halliburton’s profits. But the taxpayer was doomed not […]
[…] a powerful anti-aircraft weapon.'(55) Donaldson’s conclusions were that terrorists, most probably in two locations, shot the plane down using shoulder-fired surface to air missiles. Donaldson theorised that Clinton covered it up because the election was only 15 weeks away and he feared the American public would hold him responsible and he would lose the […]
[…] ramifications of the Round Table group. (On which see, for example, ‘The Rhodes-Milner Group’ in Lobster 13.) A-A’s Lloyd Miller wrote to me pointing out that Bill Clinton had been at Georgetown University where his tutor and mentor had been Carroll Quigley; that on leaving Georgetown Clinton went off to Oxford University as a […]
