[…] Ledeen was much involved on the first occasion the late Pope came to wide public attention in May 1981. Soon after the election of US President Ronald Reagan an attempt was made to assassinate John Paul II in St Peter’s Square. While it was known almost immediately that the would-be assassin was a Turkish […]
[PDF file]: 2011: a Reagan odyssey Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Americans live in the world first made possible by the massive exploitation of German cinematography on the outskirts of what was then a young California city. Their history does not come from books but from what was originally celluloid and now are billions of digital signals. […]
[…] Flynt suggests in his Hustler piece that KAL 007 was sent into Soviet airspace precisely in the hope that it would get shot down and rid the Reagan administration of an embarrassing individual – Larry McDonald. (The source of the embarrassment is detailed below.) Flynt’s hypothesis seems implausible (there are easier ways to kill […]
[…] the definition of the Soviet ‘threat’ was then, and remains the single most important piece in the geo-political game. The real consequence of Nixon’s demise was Ronald Reagan fronting for the resurgent cold war warriors. Nixon’s regime may have been totalitarian in inclination on domestic issues, but in foreign policy, with Kissinger at the […]
[…] listeners. One of the better post-war Washington reporters has been Godfrey Hodgson. But even his Guardian obituary of Charles Z Wick, the Hollywood producer and political fundraiser Reagan put in charge of the United States Information Agency in 1981, fell way short of his subject’s significance for British readers. Yes, it was important to […]
[…] use the word, this thread is American fascism; or militarism, any way: the subversion or supplanting of democracy by the military. Scott follows this thread through the Reagan years and clandestine plans for the ‘continuity of government’ (COG) after a variety of hypothesised national emergencies (Oliver North was involved at this juncture) – the […]
[…] by Soviet expansionism (13). (This had always been Angleton’s view and the reason for his support of Israel.) By 1979 Commentary had become a full-blown neo-Conservative, pro- Reagan platform: the editor, Norman Podhoretz, had even seen the prospect of the ‘Finlandisation of America’ lurking behind detente. (14). Along the way two books had a […]
[…] part of a planned route to a South Atlantic alliance. I’m not going to draw it fully but will present a few pointers. In 1980 a top Reagan aide, General Daniel Graham, was reported to have said in Buenos Aires that “Mr Reagan would favour a NATO-like treaty linking the militaristic nations of South […]
[…] was under way. It might therefore be supposed that Kennan was a supporter of the Vietnam War, of the neo-Conservative revolution in foreign policy which began with Reagan, and maybe even of the recent war against Iraq. In fact since 1950 his has been one of the leading dissident voices in US foreign policy. […]
[…] of File on the Czar and Conspiracy fame. Friends in High Places: the Bechtel Story by McCartney. (See Mother Jones, June 1984) for Bechtel’s relevance to the Reagan regime, and earlier periods in the Middle East … and Citizen Hughes: how Howard Hughes tried to buy America – by Drosnin, already partly serialised in […]
