[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]: […] significant on first reading but amounts to little. Pieczenik is willing to swear that X said that Y said . . . . Honegger is a former Reagan era Washington insider, best known for revealing the existence of the so-called ‘October Surprise’, the deal between the Reagan election campaign and the Iranians to prevent […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[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]: […] United States is not new. It has been a growing influence within the Republican Party since the 1970s, and played an important role in both the Ronald Reagan and George W Bush Administrations. In order to ensure their support in the 2008 Presidential election, John McCain had to install the appalling Sarah Palin as […]
[…] the Internet an essay entitled “What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want”1 3 concerning the expected war. Included in this were the words of Michael Ledeen, former Reagan official, then at the 11 12 To add yourself to his mailing list, simply send an email to with “add” in the subject line. Blum is […]
[PDF file]: […] told his audience, looked on by the whole world as ‘a shining city on a hill’. He praised Kennedy for putting a man on the moon and Reagan for winning the Cold War. America was truly ‘the indispensable nation’. After 9/11 the British people had ‘wept for our friends in the land of the […]
