This year\u2019s conference had plenty of newsworthy aspects, but it\u2019s a mystery why the press fails to talk about it<\/p>\n
The 72nd meeting of the Bilderberg group, the elite and secretive policy conference that is the longtime subject of endless conspiracy theories, was held at the weekend in Washington DC. A security cordon went up around the opulent Salamander hotel for the notoriously media-shy summit, which was packed as ever with prime ministers, military leaders, tech billionaires and the heads of giant investment companies.<\/p>\n
Bilderberg, which since the 1950s has been the intellectual engine room of Nato, took place this year at a time of immense crisis and uncertainty for the alliance. In recent weeks, with Trump threatening at every turn to withdraw from the \u201cpaper tiger\u201d of Nato, the \u201cTrans-Atlantic Defence-Industrial Relationship\u201d (as it\u2019s called on the agenda) has reached a strained breaking point.<\/p>\n
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