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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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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[…] 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 […]

Tittle-tattle

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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 […]

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 […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Profiting from War Keenie Meenie The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes Phil Miller London: Pluto Press, 2020, £12.99 (p/b) John Newsinger Phil Miller has written a tremendous book, based on a huge amount of research, that really is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the politics of the world that […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] a price. Britain won the Falklands War because of signals intelligence provided by the CIA from its listening posts in Pinochet’s Chile. As payback, US President Ronald Reagan expected the British to involve themselves in covert support to the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua. Part of Britain’s support for the Contras involved a private security […]

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, […]

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