The publisher of The American Conservative on the editor of CounterPunch:
Buckley’s Unlikely Heir: Remembering Alexander Cockburn (1941-2012)
“I first encountered the writing of Alexander Cockburn in the early 1990s on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, where he served as a regular columnist. Given that Alex was one of the premier radical-left journalists of our era, this highlights the unique background of the man.” Read more
I didn’t know about Cockburn’s scepticism with regard to global warming. Nor do I know what is the truth about global warming. What is certain, however, and what in my view has legitimized scepticism with regard to some of the measures taken or planned, is the exploitation of the issue – and other environmental issues – by the dubious kind of globalists for their purpose of much more comprehensive centralized control.
Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world’s most powerful people – the Bilderberg Group. Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek, the Bilderberg Group has been comprised of European prime ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all coming together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity. The working press has never been allowed to attend, nor have statements ever been released on the attendees’ conclusions or discussions, which have ramifications on the citizens of the world. Using methods that resemble the spy tactics of the Cold War – and in several instances putting his own life on the line – the author did what no one else has managed to achieve: he learned what was being said behind the closed doors of the opulent hotels and has made it available to the public. This second edition includes an entirely new chapter and updated information on topics such as an earlier attempt to break up Canada and the portents of a North American union.
Die Finanzkrise ist kein Ergebnis einer Naturkatastrophe, wie uns häufig vorgegaukelt wird. Außerdem unterstellt der Begriff “Krise” dass es sich um ein vorübergehendes Ereignis handelt, das durch Krisenmanagement beherrschbar ist. So wird davon abgelenkt, dass Organisationen, Institutionen, Einzelpersonen und Gruppen – als übliche Bankengeschäfte getarnt – hemmungslos ihre eigenen Interessen verfolgt haben. Mit krimineller Energie haben sie große Mengen Geld bewegt und in Netzwerken, die der Organisierten Kriminalität vergleichbar sind, dubiose Geschäfte getätigt. Doch die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung des Geschehens hat bisher nicht stattgefunden. Wolfgang Hetzer fragt nach den Gründen und untersucht, welche Straftatbestände greifen könnten. Für ihn ist es höchste Zeit, dass das traditionell gegen die “Unterschicht” eingesetzte Strafrecht auch endlich gegen die “Oberschicht” angewendet wird.
Cet ouvrage, publié pour la première fois en 1962 a été l’un des tout premiers à mettre en évidence le caractère omniprésent et multiforme de la propagande. Dépassant les définitions classiques, il a montré que la propagande n’était pas l’apanage des dictatures, mais une nécessité pour tous les régimes, qu’elle ne se limitait pas à la guerre psychologique, mais englobait aussi les public and human relations destinées à adapter l’homme à une société. Près de trente ans après sa publication, ce livre demeure une référence indispensable pour la compréhension d’un phénomène qui n’a cessé de s’étendre et de se perfectionner.
Following the publication of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War comes award-winning Gore Vidal’s long-awaited conclusion to his landmark, best-selling trilogy. Now, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. “Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California,” Vidal writes, “has an American government been so nakedly predatory”. Bush’s apparent invincibility, and what he might or might not know – especially about those new “black box” voting machines being installed all over the country – is one of the central themes of “State of the Union 2004,” a magnificent and witty Olympian survey of American Empire, where the war on terror is judged as nonsensical as the “war on dandruff,” where America is an “Enron-Pentagon prison,” a land of ballooning budget deficits thanks to the growth of a garrison state, tax cuts for the privileged, and the creeping totalitarianism of the Ashcroft justice department. Collected in this volume are Vidal’s earlier State of the Union addresses, a tradition inaugurated on the David Susskind show in the early seventies as a counterpoint to “whoever happened to be president.”
Olle Bengtsson 