[…] of the Kennedy presidency is pretty accurate but he fails to convey any size of the change from the Eisenhower/Dulles era. We tend to think of the Reagan administration as representing a big shift to the right. This isn’t really accurate – not in the whole post-war period. All they’ve actually done is return […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ancient enemy and competing social organic heir to the mantle of Rome.’ Yes, it’s almost intelligible; but that’s only part of it. Try these for example. ‘Was Reagan a Catholic Hollywood/GE Asset via Gambino?’. (Back issue, Fall 88) Or this, from the Summer 1988 summary: ‘The Real Star Wars: a review of Stephen Hawking’s […]
[…] the Lobster 49, he wrote ‘no-one seems yet to have written the tale of how this post-war generation passed on its passions, beliefs and networks to the Reagan generation’. (page 4) In fact Russ Bellant did in his Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party: domestic fascist networks and their effect on […]
[…] a fresh propaganda campaign to discredit the Soviet Union and its allies and thereby prevent any thaw in the so-called ‘New Cold War’ being waged by the Reagan administration. (57) However, although the CIA has demonstrable links to most of the above-named organisations and some of its factions have indeed made post-facto covert efforts […]
Given a WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its […]
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School […]
