[…] Ledeen One of Godson’s colleagues there in the late 1970s was Michael Ledeen, the editor of the CSIS journal, The Washington Quarterly. Come the election of Ronald Reagan, Ledeen became an adviser to Secretary of State, Al Haig, taking particular responsibility for European affairs and the Socialist International. Ledeen, for many years a columnist […]
[…] big step towards meeting. It is the story of the Committee on the Present Danger, the Cold War think-tank that prepared the way for the election of Reagan and provided the administration with Jeanne Kirkpatrick, William Casey and Eugene Rostow. Sanders shows how the CPD emerged from a split between what he calls the […]
[…] to the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. For Kamm, these reflected ‘….a curious belief – reinforced by loose talk from a new President, Ronald Reagan – that a new generation of intermediate missiles was being deployed in order to fight a “limited” nuclear war in Europe. The notion was preposterous. The […]
[…] it also resulted from a convergence of the rightist political aims of both the ‘private’ groups and factions within the national security apparatus created by President Ronald Reagan and his advisors. Among the groups that have participated in these activities are the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), the Air Commando Association (ACA), the National Defense […]
[…] Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection, (Sheridan Square Publishing, New York 1986) pp. 92-7; Jane Hunter, Jonathan Marshall and Peter Dale Scott, The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era, (South End Press, Boston, 1987) pp. 72-5; Larry Gurwin, The Calvi Affair: Death of a Banker, (Pan, London 1984) pp.190-195.
[…] the Lobster 49, he wrote ‘no-one seems yet to have written the tale of how this post-war generation passed on its passions, beliefs and networks to the Reagan generation’. (page 4) In fact Russ Bellant did in his Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party: domestic fascist networks and their effect on […]
[…] a fresh propaganda campaign to discredit the Soviet Union and its allies and thereby prevent any thaw in the so-called ‘New Cold War’ being waged by the Reagan administration. (57) However, although the CIA has demonstrable links to most of the above-named organisations and some of its factions have indeed made post-facto covert efforts […]
Given a WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its […]
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on […]
