The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) 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 […]
[…] that reality differed greatly from the view that Soviet intelligence directed all the Warsaw Pact agencies. As for the ‘terror network’ theory invented by those around Ronald Reagan, she writes: . . . the 1980s saw a number of prominent American journalists, practitioners, and politicians advance ideologically driven interpretations of state-terrorism. Most famously and […]
[PDF file]: […] that into political context by reminding us that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years […]
[…] that reality differed greatly from the view that Soviet intelligence directed all the Warsaw Pact agencies. As for the ‘terror network’ theory invented by those around Ronald Reagan, she writes: . . . the 1980s saw a number of prominent American journalists, practitioners, and politicians advance ideologically driven interpretations of state-terrorism. Most famously and […]
[PDF file]: […] was founded by David McMichael as the organ of the Association of National Security Alumni after he had resigned from the CIA over its politicisation under Ronald Reagan. It is worth remembering that the Reagan administration actually tried to persuade its population that the U.S. was threatened – and threatened militarily. 9 4 industrial […]
[PDF file]: The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa Sasha Polakow-Suransky London: Vintage Books, 2011, £16.00 O ne of the striking features of the apartheid years was the courageous determination of many South African Jews to bring down a regime significantly sustained through close alliance with Israel. In part this was a relationship of […]
[PDF file]: […] Johnson’s ‘levelling up and infrastructure’ concerns were ‘emblematic of his desire to rebuild the country and be a Prime Minister in the mould of Presidents Roosevelt or Reagan’. Leaving aside the impossible combination of Roosevelt and Reagan – which only an idiot would make, so one can assume they are unattributively quoting Johnson himself […]
[…] was founded by David McMichael as the organ of the Association of National Security Alumni after he had resigned from the CIA over its politicisation under Ronald Reagan. It is worth remembering that the Reagan administration actually tried to persuade its population that the U.S. was threatened – and threatened militarily. 9 4 industrial […]
[PDF file]: […] held tax free, offshore, greatly advantaging those corporations. The author describes how attempts to control US money supply in 1979-81 were thwarted; and six months after Ronald Reagan took office the International Banking Facility was introduced in America, allowing US banks to pretend to be overseas banks. Thus the US moved to the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] He praises Barry Goldwater (although he admits that, only recently having read what he actually had to say, ‘he really was an extremist’ (p. 168)), and Ronald Reagan (‘How I loved that man’ (p. 19).) And the late John McCain is fulsomely praised. Inevitably he regards Trump’s attacks on McCain as absolutely contemptible: ‘I […]
