[PDF file]: […] the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it was ever seriously weakened, the power of […]
[PDF file]: […] administration would, from day one, have been closely involved in the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine conflict in particular. Gore had been highly active here during the Clinton administration and was acutely aware of how close agreement nearly came in 1999-2000. Gore’s links with the region, and a – by no means inconceivable – […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] have an ‘insidious agenda that is demonic to its core’. George Soros is, inevitably, ‘the undisputed ringleader of this globalist cabal’. (p. 118). In this universe, Hillary Clinton is inevitably cast as ‘Jezebel’! (p. 132) And, of course, Trump has also taken a stand against the ‘environmental extremists’ with their fake warnings of global […]
[PDF file]: […] was accepted by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats ( Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence […]
[PDF file]: […] formulation in 2002. He was the author of The Right Man, a staunch defence of the Bush administration, published in 2003. In 2016, he voted for Hillary Clinton! Frum recognises that Trump did not come out of the blue, but was someone who took advantage of the way American politics was ‘veering toward extremism […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] no interest in the economy – as far as I know, he had no economic knowledge at all – and left it all to Brown. Copying the Clinton Democrats of the 1990s, Brown believed that Britain’s future lay in the financial services, the so-called knowledge economy and immigrants who would do the shitwork the […]
[PDF file]: […] very president since Reagan has been obliged to follow the tone set by the country’s terrorist-in-chief. George Bush Sr and George W Bush as well as William Clinton were integral parts of the Reagan tradition – liberal fantasies to the contrary not withstanding. In 2008, the ultimate synthetic president was elected, Barack Obama, a […]
[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their interests: […]
