[…] out against separation of church and state, or refused to invite Evangelicals to the White House, that he was not going to go to bat for us.'() Reagan, unlike Carter, hadn’t been born again, and so in evangelical terms wasn’t strictly speaking a Christian. (He was also keen on astrology, which is frowned on […]
[PDF file]: 2011: a Reagan odyssey Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Americans live in the world first made possible by the massive exploitation of German cinematography on the outskirts of what was then a young California city. Their history does not come from books but from what was originally celluloid and now are billions of digital signals. […]
[…] Flynt suggests in his Hustler piece that KAL 007 was sent into Soviet airspace precisely in the hope that it would get shot down and rid the Reagan administration of an embarrassing individual – Larry McDonald. (The source of the embarrassment is detailed below.) Flynt’s hypothesis seems implausible (there are easier ways to kill […]
[…] by Soviet expansionism (13). (This had always been Angleton’s view and the reason for his support of Israel.) By 1979 Commentary had become a full-blown neo-Conservative, pro- Reagan platform: the editor, Norman Podhoretz, had even seen the prospect of the ‘Finlandisation of America’ lurking behind detente. (14). Along the way two books had a […]
[…] listeners. One of the better post-war Washington reporters has been Godfrey Hodgson. But even his Guardian obituary of Charles Z Wick, the Hollywood producer and political fundraiser Reagan put in charge of the United States Information Agency in 1981, fell way short of his subject’s significance for British readers. Yes, it was important to […]
[…] the definition of the Soviet ‘threat’ was then, and remains the single most important piece in the geo-political game. The real consequence of Nixon’s demise was Ronald Reagan fronting for the resurgent cold war warriors. Nixon’s regime may have been totalitarian in inclination on domestic issues, but in foreign policy, with Kissinger at the […]
[…] use the word, this thread is American fascism; or militarism, any way: the subversion or supplanting of democracy by the military. Scott follows this thread through the Reagan years and clandestine plans for the ‘continuity of government’ (COG) after a variety of hypothesised national emergencies (Oliver North was involved at this juncture) – the […]
[…] part of a planned route to a South Atlantic alliance. I’m not going to draw it fully but will present a few pointers. In 1980 a top Reagan aide, General Daniel Graham, was reported to have said in Buenos Aires that “Mr Reagan would favour a NATO-like treaty linking the militaristic nations of South […]
[…] membership of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former director of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Gen. Daniel Graham (rtd), backing Guatemalan officials and the terror killings. In 1981 Singlaub was elected […]
[…] as Hoax On July 28 the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime, chaired by Congressman William Hughes (D-NJ), held the first of a series of hearings into whether Reagan administration officials condoned drug smuggling and other criminal activities to further its Central America policy. Among other things, the panel sought to determine if top leaders […]
