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Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

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[PDF file]: […] of jail free’ card: for a few thousand dollars of support for the contras they could fly their product in unhindered. And so the guns out and drugs back pattern began. Iran-Contra is frequently short-handed as weapons-for-hostages. More significantly it was guns-for-coke. The MJ-12 theories about alien-government contact are presented but she forbears to […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[PDF file]: […] business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A bit of this is true: the BBC certainly supports the human rights culture and multiculturalism. But how could it […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[PDF file]: […] certain in the way that the natural sciences are certain. The point about such behaviour is that human beings are not desiccated calculating machines. People drink, take drugs, smoke and overeat because it gives them pleasure or to satisfy an addiction, which in a sense is pleasure or at least an easing of pain. […]

View from Bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Politicians and economics Few politicians bother to learn elementary economics and the monetarist idea of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

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[PDF file]: […] against communities like mine that that sparked my political interest and awakening. Today, in those very same communities, working-class lives are ending unnecessarily because of a failed drugs policy. Think of all the families who have lost a child or partner, lying in a manky alleyway with a needle in their arm or a […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] 6 May 2023. See note 23 above. Commencing at 23m 33s. 41 13 old, he’s in his late fifties now,42 and he has lived a life of drugs and alcohol 43 where he has jumped from one cause to the next cause to the next cause, always arguing on, like, the worst side possible […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

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[PDF file]: […] pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at the end of the 1930s, can cause a sort of birth trauma: a foetus, struggling inside the womb, […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

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[PDF file]: […] been trained to do. If we shift our attention for a moment to the economic basis of this region, it has been said that the war against drugs is also being fought there. However, this is counterfactual. Since the 1840s the region from Afghanistan to Indochina has been part of what was originally the […]

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