Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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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, […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] left-leaning sites and Roberts is widely published on them. Roberts is a very striking figure. A distinguished academic economist to begin with, one time member of the Reagan cabinet, he worked at the free market Cato Institute and the Hoover Institution and wrote for the Wall Street Journal.1 Now he is chiefly known as […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[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 […]