[…] our founding fathers, informed by history and inspired by a passion for freedom, idealism and realism were closely interwoven’. Subsequently, as Grandin remarked in an interview, () Reagan was to elevate the Contras – the Nicaraguan anti-communist paramilitaries – into the ‘moral equivalents of the US founding fathers’. Readers will have to decide on […]
[…] is a seriously interesting picture of the real workings of American politics at the highest level. The triumph of politics over ideology in the title concerned the Reagan presidential campaign talk of fiscal prudence. Stockman was Reagan’s Budget Director and his incredulity at the tax cut the Reagan administration enacted without a matching cut […]
[…] membership of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former director of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Gen. Daniel Graham (rtd), backing Guatemalan officials and the terror killings. In 1981 Singlaub was elected […]
[…] as Hoax On July 28 the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime, chaired by Congressman William Hughes (D-NJ), held the first of a series of hearings into whether Reagan administration officials condoned drug smuggling and other criminal activities to further its Central America policy. Among other things, the panel sought to determine if top leaders […]
[…] the former Yugoslavia into vicious warfare. The BND also acted as liaison in providing logistical support for Solidarity that had originated from decisions made by both Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. (3) Much of this has been interpreted as some kind of Nazi-Catholic plot; but nothing could be further from the truth. […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 1985) “At one stage it seemed probable that the Freeze movement would halt the (MX) project altogether; only the providential shooting-down of the Korean airliner, KAL007, enabled Reagan to push his appropriations through a startled Congress.” E.P.Thompson, Star Wars booklet. Prouty and Cutler have completely reinterpreted the KAL007 crash. Denying that the plane was […]
[…] Ledeen One of Godson’s colleagues there in the late 1970s was Michael Ledeen, the editor of the CSIS journal, The Washington Quarterly. Come the election of Ronald Reagan, Ledeen became an adviser to Secretary of State, Al Haig, taking particular responsibility for European affairs and the Socialist International. Ledeen, for many years a columnist […]
The privatisation of part of the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) has been generally reported as a financial scandal. More important is what it tells us about the politics of New Labour. There are two dimensions to this: first there is New Labour’s commitment to big business and in particular to […]
[…] big step towards meeting. It is the story of the Committee on the Present Danger, the Cold War think-tank that prepared the way for the election of Reagan and provided the administration with Jeanne Kirkpatrick, William Casey and Eugene Rostow. Sanders shows how the CPD emerged from a split between what he calls the […]
