The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] democracy, the Shah. Jimmy Carter took the blame for that, and America launched itself into twenty years of living in a fairy tale world narrated by Ronald Reagan, followed by ten years of fear happily stoked by the very people who’d sold America the fairy-tale Kool-Aid in the first place. 1 Officially the United […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as president in 1980 by arranging that the Iranian state not release the hostages taken from the American embassy until after the presidential election of 1980, which Reagan won. The relationship between America and Saudi Arabia – the real ‘special relationship’ – was cemented with the 1973 Saudi-American deal that the Saudis would only […]

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