[PDF file]: […] United States by the 1986 cracklinked death of basketball player Len Bias.29 This public alarm was directed against Noriega by an unusual pair of allies: the right-wing Senator Jesse Helms, who hated Panama’s cozy relations with Cuba and Central American insurgent groups, and the liberal Senator John Kerry, who deplored Panama’s human rights 26 […]
[PDF file]: […] and inflame international tensions. A bold aim for a typed and photostatted newsletter, perhaps, but The Cuban Report had some influential readers. Among them was evidently US Senator John G. Tower (1925-1991), a Texas Republican. Tower repeated most of these missile-related claims during a recorded interview syndicated across Texan radio stations a fortnight later, […]
[PDF file]: […] United States Secretary of Defence – Dr. Mark T. Esper – has previously worked extensively as a lobbyist for Raytheon.8 This fact so disturbed Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that she sent Esper a letter in July of last year. In that letter she laid […]
[…] presidency, the USA’s political elite had been encouraging Ukrainian fascists and neo-Nazis for several years. In December 2013, during the early stages of the Euromaidan,154 Republican US Senator John McCain visited Ukraine to address the protests against the pro-Russian President Yanukovych. McCain was really following Theodore Roosevelt’s famous advice to ‘Speak softly and carry […]
[PDF file]: […] Right and American Capitalism (London: Bookmarks, 2020) p. 42 9 3 Republican platform, Reagan ignored him when it came to his choice for Vice President. Falwell favoured Senator Jesse Helms, a staunch segregationist and racist and a strong supporter of the Moral Majority.10 Instead, Reagan chose George H W Bush. Interestingly, Reagan was not […]
[PDF file]: […] presidency, the USA’s political elite had been encouraging Ukrainian fascists and neo-Nazis for several years. In December 2013, during the early stages of the Euromaidan,154 Republican US Senator John McCain visited Ukraine to address the protests against the pro-Russian President Yanukovych. McCain was really following Theodore Roosevelt’s famous advice to ‘Speak softly and carry […]
[…] presidency, the USA’s political elite had been encouraging Ukrainian fascists and neo-Nazis for several years. In December 2013, during the early stages of the Euromaidan,154 Republican US Senator John McCain visited Ukraine to address the protests against the pro-Russian President Yanukovych. McCain was really following Theodore Roosevelt’s famous advice to ‘Speak softly and carry […]
[…] presidency, the USA’s political elite had been encouraging Ukrainian fascists and neo-Nazis for several years. In December 2013, during the early stages of the Euromaidan,154 Republican US Senator John McCain visited Ukraine to address the protests against the pro-Russian President Yanukovych. McCain was really following Theodore Roosevelt’s famous advice to ‘Speak softly and carry […]
[PDF file]: […] language and scope of action for the political opposition in the country as a whole. Already the war against Korea and the great purge, commonly associated with Senator McCarthy, had established the new terms of reference for US Asia-Pacific policy.1 1 By conflating the theatre conflict the US was conducting against the Soviet Union […]
[PDF file]: […] 6) p. 431. On the long-running allegations that Clare Boothe Luce helped spark the Cuban Missile Crisis by leaking classified information, see Max Holland, ‘A Luce Connection: Senator Keating, William Pawley, and the Cuban Missile Crisis’, Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 1, no. 3, 1999, pp. 139–167. JSTOR, at (free sign-up required). 33 […]
