In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patricia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving into a […]
[…] Warren Commission. Old Nazis, New Nazis One of the most impressive pamphlets to come my way in recent years is Old Nazis, the New Right and the Reagan Administration: the role of domestic fascist networks in the Republican Party and their effect on U.S. cold war policies, by Russ Bellant. This is 96 A4 […]
Kees van der Pijl Routledge, 1998, £15.95 From the late 1970s a group of Dutch academic Marxists – including Henk Overbeek, Meindert Fennema, Frans Stokman, Robert J. Mokken and Kees van der Pijl – began studying networks of capitalist power, setting up their own international scholarly network in the process (involving, among others, Beth […]
[…] ambitions for JFK and RFK. A detailed comparison of how the Kennedys generally wished to balance US domestic and international priorities, versus the balance sought by Nixon, Reagan and others, might well have provided readers of the Matthew Smith book with some material to flesh out his otherwise over simple conclusions. It is remarkable […]
[…] to the shooting of the Pope. The US embassy says they’re fakes. It certainly sounds implausible that anything so sensitive would be transmitted by telegram. But then Reagan has appointed a lot of dummies as ambassadors. See the list – and comments – in IHT 31st March 1983. 18. William Pfaff in IHT (14th […]
On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The […]
[…] administration” as saying that “this kind of unit had been discussed at the Pentagon for a long time, but no decision was made on it until the Reagan administration took over.” The same article suggests that the impetus for ISA’s formation came from Robert Stilwell, Dep.Under Secretary of Defence, in 1981. Same report states […]
[…] all went to Princeton. George Rentchler was in my class there and was a friend. James Rentchler worked in the White House for both Presidents Carter and Reagan in the National Security Council on European affairs and served as Ambassador to both Guinea and Malta. His flat, as Gallagher described it, was filled with […]
[…] Israel for many years and evidently had been in the loop as Ghorbanifar’s backer from the very beginning. Ghorbanifar could never have caused such embarrassment to the Reagan Administration if he had not been backed by deeper, hidden forces. By the “Russian 9/11” I mean the bombings of Russian apartment buildings in 1999, accompanied […]
[…] Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, was the Reagan administration’s prime channel to Israel on matters regarding the Contras. Former Noriega aide, Jose Blandon, testifying to Senator John Kerry’s subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International […]
