[…] such as it is – is not so very far away from Webster’s contemporary followers in the John Birch Society. Those with long memories will recall that Reagan was a Goldwater supporter in 1964, the year the Birchers had captured much of the grass roots of the Republican Party. Through the Birchers and related […]
[…] clear that MI5 thought they could fight the war/conflict with the PIRA to a finish, and that the Americans, excepting bits of Cold War rhetoric from the Reagan era, have always supported at least the possibility of a negotiated settlement, one which would necessarily involve compromise. Without buying into Enoch Powell’s notion that the […]
[…] Myth of the Lone Wolf Robin Ramsay, Undercurrents No 62. Jan./Feb. 1984 Written nearly three years ago, and essentially an immediate response to the Hinkley attempt on Reagan, pointing out the obvious inconsistencies in the press reports. Much has happened since. Hinkley has spoken of the group he was part of (reported on NBC’s […]
[…] for Puharich. His home (where he was training 20 or so young people in ESP/’Remote Viewing’) was destroyed in an arson attack. He moved to Mexico. The Reagan years finally brought Tesla concepts back into the public domain (though without his name being mentioned) with the abortive Star Wars project — the siting of […]
[…] of the US Information Agency, and James A. Baker, White House Chief of Staff. (International Herald Tribune 5th January 1984). Wicks asked Baker to arrange for President Reagan to meet a group of businessmen he had put together under the banner ‘Project Democracy’, a propaganda effort to ‘support democratic institutions abroad’. They were to […]
Nexus: postmodernism or what? I wonder what posterity will make of Nexus magazine. It continues to be just about the most fascinating and the most infuriating thing which plops through my letter-box. Take the April-May 2000 issue. On the positive side there is a very interesting and maybe very important piece on the soya bean, […]
[…] that military spending; and in the end US capitalism is first and foremost interested in its own health, regardless of the niceties of ideology. Somewhere inside the Reagan administration the US business world has been ringing alarm bells about US military spending, just as it did in the late 1960s over expenditure on the […]
[…] When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing every available scrap of information on the British security and intelligence services: we had Reagan and Thatcher, a resurgent British imperialism on the coat-tails of America, and a repressive, authoritarian regime at home. Publicising what the British state most wanted kept […]
In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patricia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving into a […]
[…] Warren Commission. Old Nazis, New Nazis One of the most impressive pamphlets to come my way in recent years is Old Nazis, the New Right and the Reagan Administration: the role of domestic fascist networks in the Republican Party and their effect on U.S. cold war policies, by Russ Bellant. This is 96 A4 […]
