[PDF file]: […] Conservative MP for Aberdeenshire West, joining the pretty extremist Monday Club and Anglo-Rhodesian Society. He also became an ‘icon’ for the Conservative Right, who of course didn’t mind any of this. There were ‘rumours’ – only – that he ‘was engaged as a trouble-shooter for the Thatcher government’ in the early 1980s. Most damaging […]
[PDF file]: […] historically as well in philosophically, this is a bracing warm-up class for the overdue heavy lifting this country’s politics badly needs. Like The Return of the Public Mind, the latest book from Chris Hedges is well footnoted and indexed. Hedges has covered wars around the world, is a columnist for Truthdig.com and a widely […]
[PDF file]: […] 1974), pp. 76-77 41 Lukas (see note 9) p. 37; Weissman (see note 41) pp. 78-81 12 42 Argentina, Lebanon and Chile. It must be kept in mind that OSS and CIA has been using the connections of the international heroin traffic for covert operations virtually without interruption since “Operation Underworld” in 1943. At […]
[…] evidence and photographs, at the end which I had enjoyed the ride but still had almost no idea of (a) what was and wasn’t important here (never mind what was and wasn’t true); (b) how close Danny Casolaro had got to any of this; (c) who had killed him. One of the few clear […]
[…] began writing the 007 books, the official story is that Fleming began to write ‘the spy story to end all spy stories’ in order to ‘take his mind off an impending marriage’. While marriage for the long time bachelor was certainly in the works, other more important things were on his mind. Noel Coward, […]
[…] review was reposted at Aaronovitch Watch at . put on their front pages the fact that the Labour Party had hired a former Obama strategist to master mind their forthcoming election campaign. Of course they looked to America. Where else? As these columns have reported ad nauseam for nearly twenty years, the Labour Party […]
[PDF file]: […] the global warming agenda and his desire to see large transfers of wealth from the first world to the developing world. Yet despite this authoritarian caste of mind, he still fancies himself to be a pro-markets man. This book is worth reading for one reason and one reason only: as a primer on the […]
[PDF file]: The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In ‘The crisis’ in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party’s policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences: The Conservatives are the party for the City. We are […]
[…] of war), the length and verbosity of the various US enquiries set up to determine culpability for being ‘unprepared’ at Pearl Harbour, suggest a widespread frame of mind that takes as its starting point that America is entitled to regard itself as invulnerable.1 This conclusion is strengthened by the author neglecting to discuss the […]
[…] George Osborne saying that he had seen the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life… .” ‘Clegg….had already changed his mind about the deficit reduction plans. He was concerned about the firestorm engulfing Greece, and worried that it would spread across Europe, as Spain appeared vulnerable ….he […]
