[…] the 1980s via the Mena airstrip, when Bill Clinton was governor and controlled the state police. But the story goes further. Mena was the hub for the Reagan administration’s secret operation to supply Contra rebels in Nicaragua, which interested me because I had spent four years covering the Sandinista Revolution and the guerrilla insurgencies […]
[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]: Dark Quadrant Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump Jonathan Marshall New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021, $29.95/£22.95, h/b Robin Ramsay In 1958, the US attorney for the southern district of New York told an audience of his peers: ‘In this country today, we have a […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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]: The nature of the state and future challenges Bigger Government: The Future of Government Expenditure in Advanced Economies Marc Robinson Arolla Press, 2020 https://biggergovernment.com The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy David Graeber London: Melville House, 2015 The Entrepreneurial State – Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths Mariana Mazzucato, […]
[…] 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]: […] British American Project and other welldocumented Atlanticist networks. Jones refers to personnel at Policy Exchange, but not its current director, Dean Godson, a former member of the Reagan administration, whose brother and father have also been key figures in US-UK relations. He also steers clear of the pro-Israel lobby which, to this reviewer, is […]
[PDF file]: […] to drug trafficking by some Central American leaders than it was to support them because they were anti-communist.’ 7 violations and relished exposing the hypocrisy of the Reagan administration’s war on drugs. Senators Kerry and Helms were ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Testimony against Noriega in widely publicized committee hearings they […]
[PDF file]: […] can only hope that the reign of terror in and by the US that expanded vastly with the election of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan will finally reach the consciousness of the white ‘Left’ and those whose sentimental attachment to the American creation myth is sincere enough to rebel against the […]
