[…] opposition to the other side’. Domestic role It discusses the role played by the internet in US politics, at Federal, State and local level. For example, the Clinton administration uses the internet as a means of direct communication with the electorate. E-mail sent to the President at is read and recorded to help […]
[…] Freedland. He followed the Jim Naughtie upward path via a Lawrence M Stern Fellowship at The Washington Post. He then became a US correspondent during the early Clinton years before returning to Farringdon Road as leader writer, columnist and enthusiast for most things American and New Labour. His mild criticisms of some No 10 […]
[…] Paget’s Report. See Francis Elliott and Sophie Goodchild, ‘Diana verdict: an accident. But did US bug her calls?’ The Independent, 10 December 2006; Byron York, ‘Did the Clinton administration spy on Princess Diana? No’, National Review Online, 14 December 2006. The Express predictably cried ‘foul’ (Mark Reynolds and John Chapman, ‘Diana: it’s a whitewash…’ […]
[…] pages from Clay Shaw’s attorney, Edward Wegmann. Many of the Garrison documents relate to sightings of ‘Lee Oswald’ and ‘Clay Shaw’, or their doppelgangers, in Jackson and Clinton, La, prior to the assassination. Wegmann’s documents, predictably enough, are said to depict Garrison as a sloppy and irrational homophobe Adios LA? Finally, a tiny item […]
[…] with personality than partisanship. It’s all about the freedom conferred by the ‘What’s right is what works’ philosophy as expressed, e.g. by Dick Morris, a former senior Clinton aide who said: ‘That’s why the centre is so viable, and that’s my idea of triangulation: take the best of each and merge them. That’s not […]
[…] interservice rivalries; manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of the Pentagon’s role in post-war America. En route there are portraits of the leading figures, both […]
[…] real world about which the New Labour tendency appear to know almost nothing. They’ve believed the hype. At its core New Labour bought the story, from the Clinton people, that America was a more dynamic, open, egalitarian society which – crucially – created more jobs than other western industrialised economies. Most of this is […]
[…] DIA’s National Military Collection Agency, under the command of Maj. General John A. Leide. Our military leaders Colin Powell Given the widespread disgust with conventional politics (where Clinton and Bush begin to look as alike as Major and Blair), there has been much mumbling about the possibility of a ‘third party’ in the US. […]
[…] ‘US steps up commercial spying – Washington gives companies an advantage in information’ by Robert Windrem, NBC News Online, 7/5/00, www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/articles/spying. htm Documents, all published during the Clinton administration, appear to confirm reports that America’s electronic eavesdropping apparatus was involved in commercial espionage. See table at www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/7796/1.html (Background Documents of the US Govt. Advocacy […]
[…] enthusiasm for technology and lack of concern at resources and population issues reminds me nothing so much as of Lyndon LaRouche Jnr); and a quick skim across Clinton, from whence he came (Trilateral et al), and how he is going to fail. These latter sections are really little more than sketches It is the […]
