On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

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[PDF file]: On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA David Black Is History a fiction? In his best-seller of 1991, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, the late John Bossy claimed that Bruno spied for Queen Elizabeth’s enforcer, Sir Francis Walsingham, at the French embassy in London. This was a […]

The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They’re Taking Over Our World by Stephen Armstrong

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[…] ‘affordable’ colourchanging fibre-optic carpets (currently very ‘in’) become available, although if platinum taps hit Homebase any time soon, the billionaires will have to up their game sharply. Mind you, even with this trend it will probably be a while before any of us mere mortals are shopping for helicopters and submarines, as many of […]

The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history by Scott Newton

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[PDF file]: […] and economic underperformance spurred a search for more modern tools than public ownership and strong trade unions. That is fair enough, but it should be borne in mind that social democracy, as practised from Macmillan onwards, was to the right of the 1945 settlement. Hence the impatience of Labour romantics such as Michael Foot […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] co-operation between the members of the United Nations Security Council (though that would be acceptable to the USA, as long as they were all of the same mind as Washington). Instead it was to be founded on commitment to a ‘rules-based international order’, in which universality trumped regional blocs and balance of power arrangements. […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

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[PDF file]: […] be exercised independent of material ownership through often very complex legal mechanisms intended to conceal such control. 5 simply part of the national security state – never mind what Mr Snowden says about the NSA. It may not be possible in our lifetimes – or ever – to reorganise human society so as to […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in 1960. What happened? The authors write: ‘…..against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U2 flight […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] the great self-promoting, warrior chieftain and third generation mass murderer in the commission of the United States, Douglas MacArthur, are summarised for context.5 This serves to re mind the reader of the difference between the war story for public consumption and the war stories that are suppressed because they neither flatter the mass murdering […]

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