[PDF file]: […] 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]: Lone gunman? You wait all day for one, and then two turn up at the same time Simon Matthews The Man Who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] inaction on climate change.’ p. 75 ‘In 1989, a small group of neoconservatives—both Democrats and Republicans—who had been influential strategists in the Defense Department during the Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush administration came together to produce the Defense Planning Guidance report, which advocated US military dominance around the world. Key among the […]
[PDF file]: […] profits in the US (and most of the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it […]
[PDF file]: […] and that the EU are responsible for the growing use of food banks in the UK and has embraced the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (both claims are false). It’s hard not to think that his audience, initially heartened by his appearance, would have concluded that he didn’t really know much […]
[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]: […] promoted to Admiral in 1977, and served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Jimmy Carter. He was appointed CIA Deputy Director by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Now 87 years old and leading a very active retirement, Admiral Inman explained 3 what had happened after the 1976 meeting with Dr Mitchell. […]
