[PDF file]: […] income taxes were actually higher than in Sweden. Erlander handed over to Palme, Prime Minister 1969-1976 and 1982-1986. Palme was more obviously of the left. He visited Cuba (the first western leader to do so), criticised the US bombing of Hanoi and supported the PLO and ANC. He introduced a constitution that greatly diminished […]
[PDF file]: […] intentions in 1947-1948 and the instigation (and continuation) of the Cold War; the decision to undermine the 1954 Geneva Peace Agreement on Vietnam; the absurd blockade of Cuba; and the unprecedented support for and identification with Israel. Why does the US behave like this? Is there a common thread here? Is its detached geographical […]
[PDF file]: […] carry out this mission is of interest. The B-26 would subsequently become first choice for the CIA in its many covert operations, seeing service in Indonesia 1958-1959, Cuba 1961, the Congo 1964 and Biafra 5 Kotschack’s films included a couple of popular dramas set on the Finnish front in the 40s. See the page […]
[…] to the hilt. Officials from the president on down mentioned it at every opportunity as proof of the Sandinistas’ immorality. “High level officials” of both Nicaragua and Cuba “have been personally implicated” in drug smuggling, Reagan said during the 1985 debates over contra aid (Reagan 1987:673–76). The State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, which […]
[…] nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has had a major influence on many of those studying the activities […]
[PDF file]: […] player Len Bias.29 This public alarm was directed against Noriega by an unusual pair of allies: the right-wing Senator Jesse Helms, who hated Panama’s cozy relations with Cuba and Central American insurgent groups, and the liberal Senator John Kerry, who deplored Panama’s human rights 26 Kempe (see note 6) pp. 3-4. Washington Post, November […]
[…] peace conference wrecked by the U2 a year before. The authors’ reluctance to look at the m-i-c in action continues through their acount of the invasion of Cuba – they do not tell us that the CIA planned to force Kennedy into supporting the invasion when it foundered 7 – and into JFK’s assassination, […]
[PDF file]: […] challenging it at several points: in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, in the Middle East (the intervention in Syria), and in Latin America (support not only for Cuba but also the beleaguered Bolivarist government in Venezuela). Russia has also established a Eurasian Economic Union in conjunction with the now independent republics of former Soviet […]
[PDF file]: […] William B Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans. The eponymous Reily was a rabid anti-communist who gave financial support both to Sergio Arcacha Smith’s Crusade to Free Cuba Committee and Ed Butler’s partially CIA-funded propaganda outfit, the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). The Reily vice-president, William Monaghan, was a former FBI agent and […]
[PDF file]: […] Iranian homosexuals are executed or forced to undergo a sex change. 19 A somewhat curious designation: Freedom House places Iran in the company of China, Russia, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Libya when it comes to political freedoms and civil liberties (democracy is famously not only about voting). Page 37 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 mean there […]
