[PDF file]: […] American conservatism ‘has delivered much more harm than good, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to the Trump presidency’. (p. 6) Frum admits that Nixon, Reagan and both the Bushes ‘may sometimes have drawn power from deep and dark energies in the American soul’, but they were Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson, […]
[…] that reality differed greatly from the view that Soviet intelligence directed all the Warsaw Pact agencies. As for the ‘terror network’ theory invented by those around Ronald Reagan, she writes: . . . the 1980s saw a number of prominent American journalists, practitioners, and politicians advance ideologically driven interpretations of state-terrorism. Most famously and […]
[…] that reality differed greatly from the view that Soviet intelligence directed all the Warsaw Pact agencies. As for the ‘terror network’ theory invented by those around Ronald Reagan, she writes: . . . the 1980s saw a number of prominent American journalists, practitioners, and politicians advance ideologically driven interpretations of state-terrorism. Most famously and […]
[PDF file]: […] Johnson’s ‘levelling up and infrastructure’ concerns were ‘emblematic of his desire to rebuild the country and be a Prime Minister in the mould of Presidents Roosevelt or Reagan’. Leaving aside the impossible combination of Roosevelt and Reagan – which only an idiot would make, so one can assume they are unattributively quoting Johnson himself […]
[PDF file]: Lone gunman? You wait all day for one, and then two turn up at the same time Simon Matthews The Man Who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish […]
[PDF file]: […] was founded by David McMichael as the organ of the Association of National Security Alumni after he had resigned from the CIA over its politicisation under Ronald Reagan. It is worth remembering that the Reagan administration actually tried to persuade its population that the U.S. was threatened – and threatened militarily. 9 4 industrial […]
[…] was founded by David McMichael as the organ of the Association of National Security Alumni after he had resigned from the CIA over its politicisation under Ronald Reagan. It is worth remembering that the Reagan administration actually tried to persuade its population that the U.S. was threatened – and threatened militarily. 9 4 industrial […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that […]
[PDF file]: […] inaction on climate change.’ p. 75 ‘In 1989, a small group of neoconservatives—both Democrats and Republicans—who had been influential strategists in the Defense Department during the Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush administration came together to produce the Defense Planning Guidance report, which advocated US military dominance around the world. Key among the […]
[PDF file]: […] profits in the US (and most of the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it […]
