[…] and, failing that, cause him as much embarrassment as possible. But where was E-P and the Telegraph when we really needed them, during the scandalous years of Reagan and Bush, eh? What has Clinton done that could possibly be compared with, for example, the Savings and Loan rip-off, the biggest financial scandal in US […]
[…] economic advice they were getting? Nothing, in effect. I always thought Mrs Thatcher was a nitwit and the tales of her great intellect were coming from those around her who were unwilling or unable to acknowledge that she was the dummy she appeared to be. (Something similar has happened with Reagan and Bush junior.) RR
[PDF file]: […] claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote in its first year of existence and, at its height, had some 7 million supporters. When Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency against Jimmy Carter in 1980, he assiduously courted this new Christian Right with his platform committee meeting with the Moral Majority leadership […]
[PDF file]: […] . . they proved that their faith in the fear-mongering politics of Small Government outweighed their solidarity with those washed in the blood of Christ’. Backing Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter, he goes on, ‘set the stage for the Christian Right’s shocking sacrifice of Christianity on the altar of free enterprise in 2016’. (p. […]
[PDF file]: […] support for Ronald Reagan’s obsession with ‘protecting’ Central America in general and Nicaragua in particular – ‘America’s backyard’, in the parlance of the day. Messrs Murdoch and Reagan first met on 18 January 1983, just five days after Reagan had been informed by lawyers that (since Congress would quite obviously never approve it) the […]
[PDF file]: […] details of Operation Desert Eagle itself. Behind the scenes Casey approached Mohammed Hashemi, a CIA agent in Iran, and negotiated his own secret deal on behalf of Reagan, whereby the US promised to sell large quantities of high tech weapons secretly to Iran for their war, but on condition that Tehran hung onto the […]
[PDF file]: […] make even a provisional judgement possible). Paul Craig Roberts is one example. If one reads his work over the entire time span from his days in the Reagan administration until today, he appears to have become about as vehement an anticapitalist as one can imagine. At the same time, at least in correspondence I […]
[PDF file]: […] is the extent to which it is the United States that is the real object of Murdoch’s affection. While he was very close to Thatcher, it was Reagan and Reaganism that ‘were the most important influences on Rupert Murdoch’s political world view’. This is an important corrective. Indeed, when Thatcher and Reagan disagreed, as […]
[PDF file]: […] an extremely influential association of scholars, jurists, and legal professionals, including members of the US high judiciary, that considers itself to be conservative and libertarian. 9 Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Dinner of the Conservative Political Action Conference, 1 March 1985. Salvadoran population was either killed or forced into exile by ‘freedom fighters’.) […]
[PDF file]: […] circles. The guests at Spence’s parties including the likes of William Casey, the CIA Director from 1981 until 1987, and Joseph diGenova, ‘a US Attorney for the Reagan administration’ who ‘would go on – with his wife, 2 Reagan deputy assistant Attorney General Victoria Toensing – to work with mafia-affiliated oligarchs and serve as […]
