[PDF file]: Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare T. J. Coles Didn’t it rain Declassified records show that from 1949 to 1955, the Royal Air Force (RAF) released various substances, including dry ice, silver iodide, and salt into the atmosphere at high altitudes in order to induce rain. ‘The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]
[PDF file]: […] and the likelihood was that high levels of violence would continue unless she sought a political solution to the Troubles. Four months before her narrow escape, President Reagan had visited the Irish Republic. Mindful of the significant scale and bi-partisan nature of the US ‘Irish lobby’, he told Thatcher on her reciprocal December 1984 […]
[…] down mentioned it at every opportunity as proof of the Sandinistas’ immorality. “High level officials” of both Nicaragua and Cuba “have been personally implicated” in drug smuggling, Reagan said during the 1985 debates over contra aid (Reagan 1987:673–76). The State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, which managed the administration’s public-relations campaign against the Sandinistas, […]
[PDF file]: […] support the US bombing anyway and that ministers were shocked at how unpopular the bombing was.’ My only quibble would be with Hughes’ comment: ‘In fairness to Reagan, it is likely Libyan secret services were involved in the nightclub bombing.’ Is it? In his book The Other Side of Deception, the former Mossad officer, […]
[…] useless and powerless (or, for some on the libertarian right and the Marxist left, a source of evil and tyranny). This wasn’t how things looked before the Reagan and Thatcher-led counterrevolution. Yes, the world has changed since then. But if it came to a serious conflict between a major multinational and the UK government, […]
[PDF file]: […] Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney worked to kibosh detente with the Soviets in the 1970s, preparing the way for the neocon revival of the Soviet ‘menace’ under Ronald Reagan and his successors.52 The actions listed by Sachs have their immediate roots in the mid 1970s and ultimately – diEugenio would argue, I think – on […]
[PDF file]: […] temporary. (pp. 2/3) The author traces this well-footnoted and indexed history with academic rigour and journalistic anecdote. He shows how the free-market evangelists of the Thatcher and Reagan era repeated the myth that the great prize for a widening gap would be faster growth and a new economic dynamism that would raise living standards […]
[PDF file]: […] the President would refer to him as ‘Bandar Bush’. Bandar has been a friend of the Bush family ever since working with George HW Bush during the Reagan administration, when Bandar ended up as the middle-man in paying the Nicaraguan contras. Prince Bandar has in fact been in and out of the shadows around […]
[PDF file]: […] the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during his presidency. President Carter raised the possibility of a nuclear attack on Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear […]
