Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] previous Kvartal 95 shows starring Zelensky. The chief intermission to the channel’s relentless repeats was an American documentary about another actor who became a president, namely Ronald Reagan. The US programme had been dubbed into Ukrainian, and to make sure no-one could miss the point, the voiceover for Reagan himself was performed by Zelensky.25 […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Profiting from War Keenie Meenie The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes Phil Miller London: Pluto Press, 2020, £12.99 (p/b) John Newsinger Phil Miller has written a tremendous book, based on a huge amount of research, that really is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the politics of the world that […]

View from Bridge 88 copy

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[…] of the MJ-12 papers begins on page 17 of the PDF file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] a price. Britain won the Falklands War because of signals intelligence provided by the CIA from its listening posts in Pinochet’s Chile. As payback, US President Ronald Reagan expected the British to involve themselves in covert support to the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua. Part of Britain’s support for the Contras involved a private security […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 managed the administration’s public-relations campaign against the Sandinistas, […]

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