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The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine
[PDF file]: […] result the laws of war codified the practices of class (and race) distinctions too. In a POW camp it is generally prohibited to assign officers to manual labour. Within the scope of the camp’s resources, officers are to be accorded the courtesies and privileges due to their rank even in captivity. US soldiers remain […]
The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa
[PDF file]: […] to a balance of political forces in the USA. This was characterised by the hegemony of Keynesian economics and by the existence of a strong, well organised labour movement committed to backing the New Deal and its successor programmes – Truman’s Fair Deal, Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society. This historic moment ended […]
Hoodwinked by the Department of Health? Frank Dobson and the 1997 Jimmy Savile report
[PDF file]: […] years later? Or did ‘the machine’ simply not bring it to their attention? What is clear, however, is that Savile’s gradual easing out from Broadmoor began after Labour took office in May 1997. By July that year, Savile’s friend and colleague Alan Franey had been nudged into taking early retirement from his post as […]
You get the report you pay for
[PDF file]: […] model of long-term growth theory operating under the framework of neoclassical economics’. (p. 67) This is an economic formula which purports to show the relationship between capital, labour and technology in creating GDP growth. I am not an economist, so I cannot say to what degree this longstanding theory (dating from 1957) would uphold […]
To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’
[PDF file]: […] Irish who had no reason to love Britain as the colonial master of their ancestral homeland?4 Complicating this was the known activism of Germans in the emerging labour movement. Then there was the large number of rural and semi-rural inhabitants far from the centres of power. Leaving aside the notorious ignorance of world geography […]
Apocryphilia
[PDF file]: […] million inhabitants of the UK – and its fiscal policy reflected this: inheriting a standard rate of income tax of 9 shillings in the pound (45%) from Labour in 1951, Butler immediately increased this to its highest ever peace time level of 9 shillings and 6 pence (47.5%) a year later, also allowing at […]
Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler
[PDF file]: […] (2015), has raised some interesting points. With apologies for putting O’Brien’s argument somewhat crudely, he argues that while Germany’s war in the East was certainly the more labour intensive, which accounts for the Wehrmacht’s huge death toll on that front, it was much more capital intensive in the West. The demands on Germany of […]
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] the anti-communist activity since the war which reached a peak in the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security […]
The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton
[PDF file]: […] summation of the noninvestigation of Zangara’s intriguing background, and of the diverted rush to Zangara was originally tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years hard labour. Soon after that, he was tried for murder, because one of the bystanders hit by his bullets – Chicago mayor Anton Cermak – died when his […]