One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. … Read more
Covert Action CAIB trundles on. I haven’t always agreed with CAIB’s line. With others on the U.S. left, it used to seem reluctant to deal with the real nature of the Soviet Union. Having got to he point where America has become Amerika, many American radicals have been unable to acknowledge that the other Superpower […]
[…] into power in much of Europe, America and Australasia. It is arguable that without the oil price hike in 1974 we would not have had Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and their subsequent effects on the world. An e-mail to the Observer journalist who conducted the interview with Yamani went unanswered but I had an idea: […]
[…] off for a holiday with Albert Camus’ L’Étranger on his reading list?(9) There is a group of new books out in the US trying to represent Ronald Reagan as a wise and intelligent leader and not the dummy he appeared to be.(10) There is section of the American political intelligentsia which is acutely discomfited […]
[…] no-one who had read, say, Alfred McKoy’s The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia, exactly the same thing happened, for exactly the same reasons, when the Reagan administration set about destroying the Sandinista regime. It was simplicity itself: planes flew from America carrying supplies for the CIA’s contra army camped along the Nicaraguan […]
[…] to know. Running Soviet themes? I have been accused of running Soviet disinformation by Herb Rommerstein, a big cheese in the United States Information Service during the Reagan years. In fact in all the years I have been doing this I have never seen a piece of Soviet disinformation. I have seen lots of […]
[…] far from being ‘Finlandized’ or GDR-ized, far from drifting slowly into the Soviet orbit, saw the beginning of the right-wing moves which now see Thatcher, Kohl and Reagan in power. To this mere book-reading outsider one of the odder features of the great ‘mole hunt’ has been the contrast between the wilder stories told […]
[…] clear that MI5 thought they could fight the war/conflict with the PIRA to a finish, and that the Americans, excepting bits of Cold War rhetoric from the Reagan era, have always supported at least the possibility of a negotiated settlement, one which would necessarily involve compromise. Without buying into Enoch Powell’s notion that the […]
[…] such as it is – is not so very far away from Webster’s contemporary followers in the John Birch Society. Those with long memories will recall that Reagan was a Goldwater supporter in 1964, the year the Birchers had captured much of the grass roots of the Republican Party. Through the Birchers and related […]
[…] for Puharich. His home (where he was training 20 or so young people in ESP/’Remote Viewing’) was destroyed in an arson attack. He moved to Mexico. The Reagan years finally brought Tesla concepts back into the public domain (though without his name being mentioned) with the abortive Star Wars project — the siting of […]
