[…] numbers rough sleeping, schools, Oxbridge research, medical stats, school league tables, poverty, hospital waiting lists, street crime, ambulance response times, doctors’ working hours, unemployment figures and welfare fraud figures. I’m sure you know of other examples. So why could the political system – the politicians – not admit that the neocon ideas had failed? […]
[PDF file]: […] the Trump Casinos, Mar-a-Lago – all these enterprises were followed by a trail of claims and litigation that told a consistent story of borderline and often outright fraud’. (p. 78) He was very much a minor player in what Wolff describes as our ‘oligarch-billionaire world’, in which the super rich – men often richer […]
[…] assassination, and how his purchase was meant to have protected him, remain unclear). There is also plenty on organised crime, in particular the wave of tax evasion, fraud and murders that accompanied the ‘Aluminum Wars’. So closely packed with mega miscreants is this section that it reads like a sort of X-Factor for Bond […]
[PDF file]: […] peace loving – war making; and replete with crime, double standards and hypocrisy in the ‘too big to fail and too big to jail’ systemic world financial fraud, and so on. Its ideological cover is wearing increasingly thin. The U.S. is fast becoming an ideological phantom! And the Orwellian doublethink laden in U.S. ruling […]
[PDF file]: […] and the erosion of civil rights; greater politicisation of the justice system; the hollowing out of the traditional media; and then the Great Financial Crisis, endemic banking fraud and austerity. You couldn’t have designed an environment more amenable to the conspiratorial memes of the far right: the UK’s recent experience could easily be framed […]
[…] peace loving – war making; and replete with crime, double standards and hypocrisy in the ‘too big to fail and too big to jail’ systemic world financial fraud, and so on. Its ideological cover is wearing increasingly thin. The U.S. is fast becoming an ideological phantom! And the Orwellian doublethink laden in U.S. ruling […]
