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 […]
[…] which are already pro-Western” and should, therefore, be supported. It’s the dream of ‘roll-back’ in the Third World. The British state and to a lesser extent the Reagan Administration – certainly the State Department – are wilfully backing the wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping […]
[…] limit was reached.) Congressional bans on aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s acute crisis today recalls in its details the political uncertainty at the end of […]
[…] were again welcome in Fiji. Later that year he became the first South Pacific head of state to get a full-scale red-carpet welcome at the White House. Reagan praised his “political courage” in allowing nuclear warships into Fiji. Secretary of State Shultz told him: “Your decision to restore access to United States naval vessels […]
Blair Anthony Seldon London: Free Press (Simon & Shuster), 2004, h/b, £20 What a tome! At 755 pages, with 40 chapters and 3000 plus footnotes, the book is neatly divided into chapters on either specific historical periods or significant individuals. The picture that emerges of Blair is striking in its variance from much of […]
[…] democratic governments’ such as Libya, or Burma for example. (19) In 1986, having launched from a British airfield his bomber raid on Colonel Gadhafi’s family, President Reagan described the Libyan despot as a ‘unique threat to free peoples’, a ‘rogue regime that advances its goals through the murder and maiming of innocent civilians’. […]
[…] is behind the firm’s success. Amongst Carlyle’s other advisors have been Bush’s former Secretary of State James Baker III; Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the SEC; former Reagan administration Secretary of Defence, Frank Carlucci; ex budget chief Richard Darman; and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. John Shalikasvilli. Similar politerati pepper […]
[…] media were working hard to manufacture in the 1980s. The young anarcho-capitalists who took over the Fellowship of Conservative Students detested socialism and communism and shared the Reagan administration’s view of the Soviet Union as ‘the evil empire’. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement […]
[…] agencies do their best to bring only good news. (Which is usually inaccurate.) About the only interesting sections in this piece are those describing the way the Reagan administration has taken the logical step of trying to get the intelligence agencies to produce ‘proof’ of their various conspiracy theories about the world. The logic […]
[…] to persuade US Congressmen to lift the Section 907 ban on Azerbaijan (noted above); and (2) George Shultz (ex-President of Bechtel Group and ex-Secretary of State under Reagan), while on tour trying to persuade Azerbaijan to adopt a gas pipeline project, went so far as to refer to President Heydar Aliyev as Azerbaijan’s ‘George […]
