A new biography of the National Review founder explores his early role as an undercover CIA operative who later helped his one time agency boss Howard Hunt cover up Watergate
This is a disturbing piece of American history that reinforces what I thought of Buckley all along just from watching him on Firing Line.
I am just reading "Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism" by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson. While the book goes way back to define Capitalism to the 1400s on the Island of Madeira, as being the site of its beginning of capitalism. He then goes on to define neoliberalism as rising in the 1930s under the influence of the Viennese exile Friedrich Hayak, who spread it in the US, with the help of conservative foundations and think tanks that developed to legitimize neoliberalism and it support of the super wealthy. The Heritage Foundation of Project 2025 infamy arose from this, and I imagine that Buckley's publication would be spreading neoliberal ideas as well.
Neoliberalism, helps to concentrate wealth among the rich, and allows oligarchs to develop.
No Kings indeed. We overthrow allegiance to King George to start a new nation and then allow these wealthy individuals to be our overlords. While Nixon was not a neoliberal according to Monbiot, Reagan was. So, Buckley, whom I remember from Firing Line, was a supporter of the ruling class, as was the CIA who we recall used economists from the US who were spreading this ideology of Hayek's which according to Monbiot he twisted to suit whatever the wealthy wanted him to say, so that they could rationalize their ruling over the rest of us.
It is interesting the way that the CIA has served these interests through people like Bill Buckley, Hunt and others. That their loyalty is to their political beliefs not to the Constitution and thus Nixon is not surprising, because it has been obvious that the far right does not play by the rules. It certainly is another piece of the checkered past of the CIA, an agency that other countries which are our allies are beginning to not trust.
This is a disturbing piece of American history that reinforces what I thought of Buckley all along just from watching him on Firing Line.
I am just reading "Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism" by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson. While the book goes way back to define Capitalism to the 1400s on the Island of Madeira, as being the site of its beginning of capitalism. He then goes on to define neoliberalism as rising in the 1930s under the influence of the Viennese exile Friedrich Hayak, who spread it in the US, with the help of conservative foundations and think tanks that developed to legitimize neoliberalism and it support of the super wealthy. The Heritage Foundation of Project 2025 infamy arose from this, and I imagine that Buckley's publication would be spreading neoliberal ideas as well.
Neoliberalism, helps to concentrate wealth among the rich, and allows oligarchs to develop.
No Kings indeed. We overthrow allegiance to King George to start a new nation and then allow these wealthy individuals to be our overlords. While Nixon was not a neoliberal according to Monbiot, Reagan was. So, Buckley, whom I remember from Firing Line, was a supporter of the ruling class, as was the CIA who we recall used economists from the US who were spreading this ideology of Hayek's which according to Monbiot he twisted to suit whatever the wealthy wanted him to say, so that they could rationalize their ruling over the rest of us.
It is interesting the way that the CIA has served these interests through people like Bill Buckley, Hunt and others. That their loyalty is to their political beliefs not to the Constitution and thus Nixon is not surprising, because it has been obvious that the far right does not play by the rules. It certainly is another piece of the checkered past of the CIA, an agency that other countries which are our allies are beginning to not trust.
Sounds like the real Deep State are actually right wingers
When I hear William F. Buckley(Jr.) I don't think of this clown.
I think of the Hero, William Francis Buckley.
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/honoring-heroes/heroes/william-f-buckley/
A lot of people get these two confused
Thanks for reminding us of the other Buckley, who came to such a horrible end in Lebanon.