A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: A BALLAD OF DRUGS AND 9/11 The truth shall make you free — CIA Slogan At the First Emperor’s Tomb the Chinese People’s Republic shows you a preliminary movie in which this monument of empire is seen through the eyes of peasants who rose up in revolt and smashed the terra cotta statues we have […]

Inside the Trump Administration

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[PDF file]: […] on the core of an issue, almost intuitively’ – which is one way of putting it. (p. 4) She had previously worked for the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations and on one occasion had unsuccessfully tried to secure the Republican nomination for a seat in the Senate. She then went to work at Fox […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] to the beginnings of modern David Leigh’s 1978 Guardian account of the demise of IRD is archived at . 5 History also tells us that when the Reagan administration revived the Cold War and began another arms race, the attempt to compete militarily with the US damaged the already inefficient Soviet economy and hastened […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] previous Kvartal 95 shows starring Zelensky. The chief intermission to the channel’s relentless repeats was an American documentary about another actor who became a president, namely Ronald Reagan. The US programme had been dubbed into Ukrainian, and to make sure no-one could miss the point, the voiceover for Reagan himself was performed by Zelensky.25 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] previous Kvartal 95 shows starring Zelensky. The chief intermission to the channel’s relentless repeats was an American documentary about another actor who became a president, namely Ronald Reagan. The US programme had been dubbed into Ukrainian, and to make sure no-one could miss the point, the voiceover for Reagan himself was performed by Zelensky.25 […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

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[PDF file]: […] Richard Helms for lying to Congress about CIA efforts to sabotage the Chilean elections. He was offered the job of CIA Director by both Presidents Ford and Reagan. He also sat on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Ford and Reagan administrations. See Thomas, The Man to See pp. 340, 334, 472; […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[PDF file]: […] (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (South End Press, 1987). Books cited Apostolidis, Paul and Juliet Williams, eds. Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals. Durham: Duke University Press, […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

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