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The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

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[PDF file]: […] the day-to-day activities of Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. The output from the latter days of the COI come across, now, as being rather miserable. During the Thatcher years it was used to justify the dismantling and sale of national infrastructure, notably with the 1986 British Gas privatization adverts, which provided a cosy aesthetic […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

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[PDF file]: […] Secretary Merlyn Rees, is reported as being in the Information Policy Unit by unit member Michael Taylor. See . 5 6 Quoted in a letter to Mrs Thatcher from Colin Wallace in 1990. See the section headed ‘The smear about John Hume stealing charitable funds’. 7 Communist Party or National Liberation Front be admitted […]

The view from the bridge

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Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] be inclusive, not exclusive.’ 8 These commitments were reiterated by President Bush, French President Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and by consecutive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Soviet security US National Security Archive, Record of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, Moscow, 9 February 1990 at or . 7 […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

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[PDF file]: […] to Israel to open the Rothschild-funded Supreme Court building later that year.128 Jacob was among the guests to the exclusive annual Hollinger dinner in 1998, alongside Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington.129 Despite Black’s legal troubles he retained his contacts with the Rothschilds: […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

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[PDF file]: […] He mentions, for example, Anthony Crosland, but not his CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom spell. He mentions the Heritage Foundation, but not its documented involvement in the Thatcher era ‘think-tanks’. There’s not a word on the British American Project and other welldocumented Atlanticist networks. Jones refers to personnel at Policy Exchange, but not its […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] Collin in his Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House, Staines said of David Hart: ‘He’s completely charming and can charm senior people like Thatcher for a while. But any proximity to him for a long period of time, you know he’s completely off his fucking head.’ 31 Perhaps it was […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

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[PDF file]: […] that under his particular scheme of Christian charity, ‘(p)eople will not starve to death, although their standard of living may not be sustained’. Falwell singled out Margaret Thatcher, who had just become Prime Minister in Britain, for particular praise. Having thus established his conservative credentials, he went on to address the ‘culture wars’ agenda […]

The Centre Must Hold: Why centrism is the answer to extremism and polarisation edited by Yair Zivan

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[PDF file]: […] occasionally go to non-left figures such as John Major, who was prepared to countenance contacts with the IRA prior to the Good Friday Agreement – something that Thatcher would never have tolerated. 1 So far, so good. Who in their right mind wants Farage, Trump, Le Pen and their ilk bellowing their lies and […]

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