[…] Sarah Tisdall going to jail after she leaked confidential documents to The Guardian. Many at the time – the height of the renewed Cold War under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – thought the editor of The Guardian would resign, a course of action over failure in civic duty his newspaper’s leading articles have […]
[…] Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations for many years. It would not be until the advent of the current Pope, John Paul II, and the coming to power of Reagan and Thatcher, that the concerted roll-back of communism was pursued in much the way that the Intermarium exiles, Peron, Skorzeny, Durcansky, Pavelic, Horthy etc. would have […]
[…] Alpha 66 and Omega 7 – employed Mark Chapman, assassin of John Lennon – on World Vision’s board is John Hinkley Snr, father of attempted assassin of Reagan, John Hinkley Jnr. Judge suggests that World Vision is ‘an elaborate cover for the recruitment, training and placement of assassins world-wide.’ Well, maybe. Other explanations are […]
[…] So poor was the output of these disinformation programmes (a couple of examples are reprinted in this volume) that a tape recording in which the voices of Reagan and Thatcher had been edited together to apparently show them discussing a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union was attributed to the KGB. In the event […]
Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and knew a little, simple economics, it didn’t take genius to notice that while the UK’s manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, and less […]
[…] of much of the American Right. But that’s been done already. How often do we need to be told of the idiocies of Jerry Falwell and Ronald Reagan, the cynicism of Karl Rove, or the horrors of consumerism as a way of life? Reading this I kept thinking, OK, but we know all this. […]
[…] that this was a very remarkable book was correct. It was. This is centrally an account of some of the bureaucratic struggles inside the CIA during the Reagan years when the in-coming Know-nothing administration decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to […]
[…] August 28, 1991). In fact, arms merchant Ari Ben-Menasche identified Cardoen as the person who brokered the deal between Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super secret agent; Casolaro wanted fodder for a novel. […]
[…] explore and support his thesis about LIC clutters up with a lot of repetitive discussion of LIC and its predecessors an interesting and detailed account of the Reagan administrations’ attempts to ‘roll back revolution’. Molloy would justify by this by claiming that LIC really was something substantially new, not just ‘counter-insurgency under a new […]
One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. … Read more
