[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]: […] 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 […]
[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]: […] cited (which also made mention of the formation of the British American Project, in which three members of IEDSS were key players) made clear that the first Reagan administration was seriously afraid that Thatcher, and even Kohl, might not be re-elected. The draft constitution of the new SDP was written in Massachusetts by two […]
[PDF file]: […] the market (in other works un-embed it) from the network of regulations and practices within which it had operated since 1945. Both the Thatcher government and the Reagan administration in the USA, elected in 1980, wanted to liberate entrepreneurs and capitalists so that they, and not the state in conjunction with managers and unions, […]
[PDF file]: […] American Cruise missiles despite protests from Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the woman’s movement. Prime Minister Healey seemed to get to get on quite well with President Reagan, though his private assessment of the former actor, salty and uncomplimentary in equal measure, caused a diplomatic storm when it leaked out. Trident was voted through […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of […]
[PDF file]: […] supporter President Johnson; ‘2 Eisenhower Aides Given Democratic Campaign Jobs’, New York Times, September 21, 1964. (He would switch again and become Ambassador to Italy under President Reagan.) Another key business ally of Chesler was Gardner Cowles of Cowles Magazine & Broadcasting, Inc., who became the second largest investor in General Development, behind only […]
[PDF file]: […] the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was heavily involved with the IRC, as was William Casey, who went on to become CIA director under Ronald Reagan. Of particular interest is John Whitehead, a former cochair of Goldman Sachs, who was IRC treasurer from 1960 until 1979, when he became its president, a […]
[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 […]
