Of the many questions left unanswered from this summer’s so-called Lobbygate furore, one stands out: why did Prime Minister Tony Blair expend so much energy and political capital saving Roger Liddle, the Downing Street adviser who was caught by The Observer offering access through his former lobbyist business partner, Derek Draper? Loyalty cannot be an … Read more
[…] Postscript Despite these last minute boosts to his campaign, Chirac suffered a decisive defeat in the election of May 8th. After Mitterand’s victory with 54% of the vote, the period of ‘co-habitation’ between Socialist President and Republican Prime Minister is over: Chirac resigned within a few days. The French vendetta starts a new stage […]
A Bilderberg Press Release I don’t think I’ve ever published a press release before, but this is unmistakably a press release from last year’s Bilderberg meeting.(1) There is the occasional oddity in this, possibly caused by e-mail transmission, which I’ve highlighted, and I’ve arranged the participants by country, rather than alphabetically as in the original. … Read more
[…] SDP in which Rodgers, Horam, Thomas and Wrigglesworth were prominent members to British society was to keep Thatcher in power after 1981 by dividing the vote against her in 1983 and 1987. The impact this had on UK manufacturing and municipal government (the core of the GMB membership) indicates that the union […]
Amnon Reuveni Temple Lodge Publishing, London 1997, £9.95 The author notes in his Introduction that this was ‘written with the aid of Anthroposophy….and seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the post-Cold War world situation.’ The author’s assumptions are listed as: ‘The present is not only to he regarded as the outcome of … Read more
[…] win any important section of the working class to anti-imperialist positions, even where it is subjectively anti-capitalist. The situation in Northern Ireland highlights the urgency of doing so. If effective solidarity action is to be achieved, a considerable work of propaganda and demystification in Britain will be needed. VOTE LABOUR 7 Carlisle Street, London, W1
Colin Wallace and ‘Clockwork Orange 2’ In 1974, while working for the British Army’s Northern Ireland psy-ops unit, Information Policy, Wallace was asked (told) by an MI5 officer to work on a psy-ops project, ‘Clockwork Orange 2’. Wallace’s job spec. for CO2 was to produce a document, a first-hand narrative, apparently written by a supporter … Read more
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing Stephen Marshall (Guerilla News Network, $13.22. Available from <> and <amazon.co.uk>) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein, (London: Allen Lane, £25.00) ‘When new (forms of capitalism) emerged in the past …they sparked a flood of analysis and debate about how such seismic shifts in the production … Read more
[…] its treasurer), Chatham House and Konigswinter with writing for the US Council for Foreign Relations journal Foreign Affairs. The Cambridge-educated Butler jointly authored with Neil Kinnock Why Vote Labour in 1979 and through the Fabian Society was deeply involved in the former Labour leader’s successful efforts to move the party away from unilateral nuclear […]
[…] New Right fear it is the masses, which they assume to be stupid proto-populists of the right. Thus they adopt the methods of Berlusconi to manage the vote instead of adopting the slower but much surer process of building a complex bottom-up culture of civil society built on locality, the civic centre, the trades […]
