The View from the Bridge

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[…] World War and the Russian 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] foreign policy interests of both. Mossad 91 Summer 2010 founding father Kimche was a key figure in setting up the 1985 US arms-for-Iran deal when President Ronald Reagan was needing to find a way to finance the Contra rebels in Nicaragua after the US Senate ruled such funding illegal. Israel supplied the weapons and […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[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, […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in 1942, authorised the deportation and incarceration of US citizens of Japanese origin or descent, without due process. The last internment camp was closed in 1946. Ronald Reagan was said to have made a small fortune dealing in forced sales of real estate forfeited by interned Japanese. Until World War II, wars among whites […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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