Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

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[PDF file]: Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right Graham Macklin London: Routledge, 2020, £24.99, pb John Newsinger Failed Führers is a volume in the Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right series. At the moment there are almost 60 volumes in the series, already published or forthcoming. The handful that I have so far […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

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[PDF file]: […] his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during his presidency. President Carter raised the possibility of a nuclear attack on Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

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[PDF file]: Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid London: Profile Books, 2020, 513 pp, £10.99 Colin Challen The dissemination of disinformation is as old as the hills, and now, thanks to the Internet, its transformation from the analogue age to the digital has given it what Rid explains as a post-modernist […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

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[PDF file]: […] known to be a strong backer of vocal Israel supporters John McCain and Joe Lieberman.The authors write: ‘Tony Blair is publicly signed up to Saban’s views about Iran and Israel. If that were not the case, it is most unlikely that Saban would be funding his Faith Foundation…. Money comes with strings attached. Tony […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

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[PDF file]: […] This is all being organised by al-Qaeda, and, moreover, ‘it has recently been reported’, that this invasion ‘may be’ being carried out in alliance with Venezuela and Iran. Rubin puts forward a plan for how to defeat this attempted Muslim takeover. Among his recommendations are an immediate ban on all Muslim immigration into the […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] Clovis Meath Baker who spent, ‘. . . 28 years in the Foreign Office during which he filled senior roles dealing with the Middle East, counter-proliferation and Iran, and regularly attended meetings of the National Security Council, the Joint Intelligence Committee, and COBRA. He was seconded to GCHQ as Director of Intelligence Production from […]

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[…] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]

The Never Trumpers

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[PDF file]: […] support Trump has among the police across the US. And, once again, as Frum points out, polling has shown that most Americans (76 percent) opposed war with Iran, including ‘63 percent of Republicans’. (p. 171) More generally, he hopes that the Republican Party, that ‘has morphed under Trump into a party of white ethnic […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

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