There are reports in the Business Insider in the UK that the director-general of the powerful British Chamber of Commerce, John Longworth has resigned after calling for the UK to leave the European Union. It is highly likely that this would be a significant moment in the debate over the Brexit (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/News/2016/March.html#comment0185).
William Blum William Blum 7 August 2017 Image: Award winning author William Blum This article is a chapter from Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower by William Blum published in 2005. How many Americans could identify the National Endowment for Democracy? An organization which often does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. The NED was set up in the early 1980s under President Reagan in the wake of all the negative revelations about the CIA in the second half of the 1970s. The latter was a remarkable period. Spurred by Watergate – the Church committee of the Senate, the Pike committee of the House, and the Rockefeller Commission, created by the president, were all busy investigating the CIA. Seemingly every other day there was a new headline about the discovery of some awful thing, even criminal conduct, the CIA had been mixed up in for years. The Agency was getting an exceedingly bad name, and it was causing the powers-th...
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