[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel […]
[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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
