[PDF file]: […] to the Internet an essay entitled “What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want” concerning the expected war. Included in this were the words of Michael Ledeen, former Reagan official, then at the American Enterprise Institute, which was one of the leading drum-beaters for attacking Iraq: “If we just let our own vision of the […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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. […]
