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Mayhem at Hay as Monbiot attempts citizen’s arrest on “war criminal” John Bolton
The former Bush administration official John Bolton narrowly escaped a citizen’s arrest last night at the Hay book festival, when a crack team featuring writer George Monbiot and comedian Marcus...
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MacArthur’s classic PR industry exposé – and a little bit of history...
Ben H Bagdikian’s 1993 foreword to John R MacArthur’s classic PR industry exposé, “Second Front”, nowadays reads somewhat poignantly. “A lesson we should have learned in the 1960s and 1970s is that...
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Radio days
I’ve had an interesting few days doing radio interviews about “Don’t Get Fooled Again” – starting on Thursday with BBC Radio Oxford, Ireland’s RTE, and Talk 107 in Edinburgh, looking at some of the...
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Jenni Russell on the UK government’s crisis of trust
From Jenni Russell in The Guardian: Only four months ago, when Smith gave a speech to the Smith Institute on the necessity of parliament’s shoving through the imminent plans for 42-day detention, the...
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A little bit of history repeating itself… George Monbiot on the lies told in...
From The Guardian Another anniversary, almost forgotten in this country, falls tomorrow. On November 12 1924, Edmund Dene Morel died. Morel had been a shipping clerk, based in Liverpool and Antwerp,...
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Douglas Card on Lincoln and Obama
Douglas Card, eloquent bane of the Holocaust denialists commenting on this blog, has just had an interesting piece published on the historical parallels between Lincoln’s opposition to the US invasion...
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