[…] Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Some of the more well-known names of Fronteras’ Board members are: Chairman William H. White (ex Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton); President/CEO Steve Nicandros (ex-Pres. Conoco International Operations); and Advisers John Deutch (ex-CIA Director) and Lloyd Bentsen (ex-Treasury Secretary.). ‘A coup attempt in 1998 led the chairman […]
[…] in an effort to ‘modernise’. From 1990-92 Mulgan was special adviser to Gordon Brown when he was shadowing the Department of Trade and Industry, and became ‘the Clinton campaign’s link to Labour, which involved lots of telephone calls with the Americans – mainly advising them how not to repeat our mistakes.'(3) Demos aimed to […]
[…] New Labour agree on several key facts. First, that Tony Blair has transformed the Labour party unrecognisably. Second, that much of this has been modelled on the Clinton experience, and third that he has created a new model of centrism and apparent fiscal prudence. Yet from 2001 on we can see a parallel phenomenon […]
[…] ‘Whitewatergate’ material he has been unflaggingly pushing through The Sunday Telegraph since 1993. The ‘slanders’ are here documented month by month. Evans-Pritchard is obviously out to unseat Clinton and, failing that, cause him as much embarrassment as possible. But where was E-P and the Telegraph when we really needed them, during the scandalous years […]
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European loosely […]
[…] structural problems with the American political system (which we know is perfect and sacrosanct). Even the Democratic Party, the victims here, are afraid of it. Obama and Clinton appear to believe that the next presidential election will be just another election; it might be fiddled at the margins by what we might call ‘ordinary […]
[…] White House multi-millionaires to help create a reliable ‘successor generation’, a fitter Ronald Reagan might today have cause for a chuckle. The Labour administration his successor Bill Clinton came to smile upon in May seems safely in the hands of an elite well-groomed in the ways of Atlantic cooperation. Tom Easton is a freelance […]
[…] courtesy of Ed Balls – but we do not seem have an account from Brown of why he made this journey. It may simply be that the Clinton Democrats persuaded him that there was no alternative if he wanted to get elected; but it would be interesting to know. For all that Brown has […]
[…] (who had been a British diplomat in Washington and whose brother had been Thatcher’s foreign policy advisor) had nurtured a close relationship with Sydney Blumenthal in the Clinton White House, before becoming Blair’s Chief of Staff at Number 10. This Washington connection was central to the secret channel of communication with Sinn Fein, via […]
[…] and work round the faulty IT system installed by another group of whizzo ‘consultants’.(3) However you think of New Labour – neo-cons, Thatcherites, careerists, emulators of the Clinton Democrats – their outstanding feature has become their utter incompetence. Across almost the entire spectrum they persist with policies which are demonstrably not working. Thinking kindly, […]
