Newsinger Uproar

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Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972 Aaron J Leonard London: Repeater Books, 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] to the American President. He was so keen to abase himself that he claimed that “Britain was the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting against Hitler“. America did not declare war on Germany until December 1941.’ In the months before the Obama visit there were examples of the UK’s role as the […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972 Aaron J Leonard London: Repeater Books, 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment […]

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] state propaganda machine. This machine was the crucial factor. Similar propaganda efforts in 1941 played an important part in making Stalin the Russian emblem of defiance and Hitler the German emblem of defiance in 1945. In the British instance, the propaganda effort was decisive, not the supposed character of the man or his supposed […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

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[PDF file]: […] of the casualties incurred in the Dower notes that some of the European scientists, who had assumed that they were working on a scheme that would thwart Hitler building the first atomic weapons, were dismayed by the steady drift of the Manhattan Project toward an anti-Soviet outcome. It is interesting to consider at what […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

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[PDF file]: […] The BUF was overwhelmingly urban, and the British agricultural sector was too weak socially and economically to allow British Fascists to exploit them for electoral success, as Hitler and Mussolini had done in Germany and Italy. Some of the more modern followers of Mosley have attempted to present Jenks as the first Green, and […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] in the Mossad cast his eyes down and appeared to be talking to his boots, ‘Blame the zealots. I thought the spirit of the Jews had survived Hitler and the Shoah. But I’m certain now that I was wrong.’ Although his real name was unknown to me, he talked confidentially about the ‘bloodlust’ of […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] in the Mossad cast his eyes down and appeared to be talking to his boots, ‘Blame the zealots. I thought the spirit of the Jews had survived Hitler and the Shoah. But I’m certain now that I was wrong.’ Although his real name was unknown to me, he talked confidentially about the ‘bloodlust’ of […]

Back to the future (again)

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[PDF file]: […] a photographer noted for his contributions to The Sunday Times David Bowie stated on 26 April 1976, ’I believe Britain could benefit from a dictator’ and ‘ Hitler was the first rock star’. See or . Eric Clapton’s utterances, about Enoch Powell and immigration, were made at a gig in Birmingham on 5 August […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] There he was described as ‘migration expert, a former attorney general of Ireland, and chairman of the London School of Economics’.103 Which is akin to describing Adolf Hitler as a ‘minor Austrian painter’. Pentagonism What is it with the American state and Saudi Arabia? Bin Laden is a Saudi, the 9/11 gang were almost […]

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