The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must for proof-reading help with some of this edition of Lobster. Grauniadia I received this from a correspondent of mine. A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a […]
[PDF file]: […] for the very weird prisoner introduced as Rudolf Hess, at his insistence standing up and without pain killing injection. Later I had access to the full official Nazi party medical records for the real Rudolf Hess, going back to his gunshot wounds in WW1. They showed that he had lost his upper left molar […]
[PDF file]: […] New Capitalist Order, Towards A New Society, Toward A New Multilateralism. (I wonder if Stiglitz is aware of how closely these echo in tone the fascist and Nazi slogans of the 1930s?) What form would this Stiglitzian global regulation take? He would require nation-states to effectively subcontract the economic management of their country to […]
[PDF file]: […] old schisms created by Henry VIII (Protestantism vs Catholicism), and the triumphalist religious right-wing forces in America (who escaped from Old Europe). This is dangerous territory, with Nazi echoes of Blood and Honour being deeply embedded in the culture. It is no coincidence that the EU was specifically designed to move away from such […]
[PDF file]: […] feel like just another synthesis of the extant material. Cox’s narrative structure and his frequently unusual choices from the mountains of available data – the America neo- nazi and segregationist right get more attention than usual, for example – make it feel fresh. And because he is discussing events leading up to the shootings, […]
[PDF file]: […] in January 1941. Although the USA was not then a belligerent, Roosevelt was keen to help the struggle of British Commonwealth and Empire and Allied forces against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, notwithstanding the existence of pro-neutrality legislation which limited what his administration could do to help. Already, in 1940 the US had provided […]
[PDF file]: […] BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. He hit his stride in 1981 with Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, an account of how, post-1945, various German war criminals were allowed to remain in situ and even flourish with the connivance of the UK and […]
Garrick Alder His name is Olaf Neitsch, and he was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s […]
[PDF file]: […] the West was ‘a lesser evil’ that he was prepared to help fight the Russians. This was the same stance that he had taken with regard to Nazi Germany. Whereas in Animal Farm, the Soviet Union is shown as being as bad as the West, by Nineteen Eighty Four, the totalitarian danger has become […]
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