[PDF file]: […] the New Deal and its successor programmes – Truman’s Fair Deal, Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society. This historic moment ended with the election of Ronald Reagan to the White House, with the backing of banks and corporations concerned about falling profitability, ‘big government’ and (what they saw as) high taxation and over […]
[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]: […] complicity? Does the closeness of the CIA to Pakistan, with its intelligence service’s ties to the Afghanistan ‘freedom fighters’ dating back at least to the Carter and Reagan years, point in a slightly different direction? Many Israel-supporting figures around Bush thought only a ‘catastrophic and catalysing event – like a new Pearl Harbour’ would […]
