[…] the former Yugoslavia into vicious warfare. The BND also acted as liaison in providing logistical support for Solidarity that had originated from decisions made by both Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. (3) Much of this has been interpreted as some kind of Nazi-Catholic plot; but nothing could be further from the truth. […]
[…] was under way. It might therefore be supposed that Kennan was a supporter of the Vietnam War, of the neo-Conservative revolution in foreign policy which began with Reagan, and maybe even of the recent war against Iraq. In fact since 1950 his has been one of the leading dissident voices in US foreign policy. […]
[…] of File on the Czar and Conspiracy fame. Friends in High Places: the Bechtel Story by McCartney. (See Mother Jones, June 1984) for Bechtel’s relevance to the Reagan regime, and earlier periods in the Middle East … and Citizen Hughes: how Howard Hughes tried to buy America – by Drosnin, already partly serialised in […]
[…] doing so. With profits of 30-50%, double the profit of even the most successful business, Vegas became a cash-cow like no other. Every President from Truman to Reagan either visited Vegas to raise campaign funds or was politically and financially indebted to the people who ran Vegas. Paul Laxalt, one of only two republican […]
[…] our founding fathers, informed by history and inspired by a passion for freedom, idealism and realism were closely interwoven’. Subsequently, as Grandin remarked in an interview, () Reagan was to elevate the Contras – the Nicaraguan anti-communist paramilitaries – into the ‘moral equivalents of the US founding fathers’. Readers will have to decide on […]
[…] is a seriously interesting picture of the real workings of American politics at the highest level. The triumph of politics over ideology in the title concerned the Reagan presidential campaign talk of fiscal prudence. Stockman was Reagan’s Budget Director and his incredulity at the tax cut the Reagan administration enacted without a matching cut […]
[…] Anderson and Anderson deserve credit for making this plain in their Inside the League (reviewed in this issue). The high profile of WACL qua anti-Semitic international since Reagan took office is merely one example of the way the anti-Semitic groups have become emboldened under the Thatcher-Reagan-Kohl axis. Another is the increasing anti-Semitism of the […]
[…] of the Kennedy presidency is pretty accurate but he fails to convey any size of the change from the Eisenhower/Dulles era. We tend to think of the Reagan administration as representing a big shift to the right. This isn’t really accurate – not in the whole post-war period. All they’ve actually done is return […]
[…] 1985) “At one stage it seemed probable that the Freeze movement would halt the (MX) project altogether; only the providential shooting-down of the Korean airliner, KAL007, enabled Reagan to push his appropriations through a startled Congress.” E.P.Thompson, Star Wars booklet. Prouty and Cutler have completely reinterpreted the KAL007 crash. Denying that the plane was […]
The privatisation of part of the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) has been generally reported as a financial scandal. More important is what it tells us about the politics of New Labour. There are two dimensions to this: first there is New Labour’s commitment to big business and in particular to […]
