Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote in its first year of existence and, at its height, had some 7 million supporters. When Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency against Jimmy Carter in 1980, he assiduously courted this new Christian Right with his platform committee meeting with the Moral Majority leadership […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] . . they proved that their faith in the fear-mongering politics of Small Government outweighed their solidarity with those washed in the blood of Christ’. Backing Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter, he goes on, ‘set the stage for the Christian Right’s shocking sacrifice of Christianity on the altar of free enterprise in 2016’. (p. […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] details of Operation Desert Eagle itself. Behind the scenes Casey approached Mohammed Hashemi, a CIA agent in Iran, and negotiated his own secret deal on behalf of Reagan, whereby the US promised to sell large quantities of high tech weapons secretly to Iran for their war, but on condition that Tehran hung onto the […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] support for Ronald Reagan’s obsession with ‘protecting’ Central America in general and Nicaragua in particular – ‘America’s backyard’, in the parlance of the day. Messrs Murdoch and Reagan first met on 18 January 1983, just five days after Reagan had been informed by lawyers that (since Congress would quite obviously never approve it) the […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] make even a provisional judgement possible). Paul Craig Roberts is one example. If one reads his work over the entire time span from his days in the Reagan administration until today, he appears to have become about as vehement an anticapitalist as one can imagine. At the same time, at least in correspondence I […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] is the extent to which it is the United States that is the real object of Murdoch’s affection. While he was very close to Thatcher, it was Reagan and Reaganism that ‘were the most important influences on Rupert Murdoch’s political world view’. This is an important corrective. Indeed, when Thatcher and Reagan disagreed, as […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] an extremely influential association of scholars, jurists, and legal professionals, including members of the US high judiciary, that considers itself to be conservative and libertarian. 9 Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Dinner of the Conservative Political Action Conference, 1 March 1985. Salvadoran population was either killed or forced into exile by ‘freedom fighters’.) […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] to the beginnings of modern David Leigh’s 1978 Guardian account of the demise of IRD is archived at . 5 History also tells us that when the Reagan administration revived the Cold War and began another arms race, the attempt to compete militarily with the US damaged the already inefficient Soviet economy and hastened […]