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Memoir of a World Watcher: Diana Johnstone
By Diana Johnstone and Bonnie Faulkner
Global Research, August 20, 2020
Guns and Butter 5 August 2020
Url of this article:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/memoir-world-watcher/5721641

We discuss Diana Johnstone’s memoir, “Circle in the Darkness”:

Yugoslavia under Tito; bombing of Serbia; Camp Bondsteel; spook revelation journalism;

Paris in 1968; anti-war movement of the ‘60s; legacy of Charles de Gaulle; Europe occupied since WWII;

the Greens; Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties; neoliberal counterrevolution in the 1980s; finance capital;

internationalism vs nationalism; privatization; financial institutions living off of sovereign debt; austerity;

Yellow Vests a revival of an economic left; Antifa enforcing the establishment position;

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) a rule to break national sovereignty; destruction of Libya by NATO;

new phase of capitalism called ‘green’; censorship of intellectual discussion

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