Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] history, the Stop the War march of 15 February 2003, presumably because it was against a Labour government. He ferociously condemns Thatcher for her relationship with Ronald Reagan, but is much more relaxed about Blair’s relationship with George W. Bush, a relationship that was sealed in a great deal of blood. The disastrous Iraq […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[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 […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] 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 […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

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[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 […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1 2 It’s a formidable achievement’. (pp. 33-34) ‘A formidable achievement’! It would certainly have resulted in the impeachment of any previous president – except perhaps Ronald Reagan. Is Sopel’s response really the right one when a president clearly demonstrates a determination to stay in office by any means necessary? And when Trump turned […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] 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.15 The actions listed by Sachs have their immediate roots in the mid 1970s and ultimately – diEugenio would argue, I think – on […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] useless and powerless (or, for some on the libertarian right and the Marxist left, a source of evil and tyranny). This wasn’t how things looked before the Reagan and Thatcher-led counterrevolution. Yes, the world has changed since then. But if it came to a serious conflict between a major multinational and the UK government, […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[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 […]

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