Policing (a) and the miners 3 page overview in Labour Research (September) Officers being sent straight from training school (Guardian 20 November) Police installing alarms in homes of (some) working miners. (Guardian 27 November) Police officers being charged a ‘fee’ of a bottle of whisky to get on lucrative picket duty. (Daily Telegraph 25 October) […]
[…] concludes that many (including Ben-Menashe) were lying or exaggerating in part. Despite this he concludes that the core of the story, that the in-coming Republican team round Reagan did a deal of some kind with the Iranians, is true. If the gun isn’t smoking, it is still warm. Parry paints a deeply depressing picture […]
[…] the covert war against Nicaragua involved a campaign of terror waged by CIA mercenaries that was nevertheless presented to the world as a liberation struggle. President Ronald Reagan celebrated ‘the contras’ as men in the same mould as the ‘Founding Fathers’ of the United States. This did not stop him trying to subvert the […]
[…] scoured beneath the public relations veneer of U.S foreign policy and become, sometimes in partnership with Noam Chomsky, the scourge of its conventional wisdom. In the early Reagan years we had an expose of the ‘Bulgarian plot to kill Pope John Paul II’ — a critical event in the winding up of the Second […]
[…] the the basic problem we all have. X knows Y, who knows Z. Is this significant? Is there a connection between X and Z? For example: the Reagan White House supports the appointment of a former European war criminal to run one of the Republican Party’s minor committees. If this does not mean ‘Reagan […]
[…] Newsweek. The resistance to his research he met among the editors and managers of both organisations leads into his second theme: the largely successful attempt by the Reagan administration to bully and/or sweet talk the US media into not looking too closely at what it was doing in the Middle East and Central America. […]
Colin Wallace On the Colin Wallace front, the big event since issue 17 has been Paul Foot’s book, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (Macmillan, 1989). With this book Paul Foot has re-researched and synthesised all the previous work and produced what is likely to remain the definitive account of Wallace’s biography, his allegations and – most […]
[…] Circle’s January 1980 meeting: in a follow-up meeting in June the same year, the Circle’s attention was turned towards the American Presidential election that was to bring Reagan to power. Minutes of the meeting of the Pinay Circle held on 28th and 29th June 1980 in Zurich. A further meeting of the Circle was […]
[…] September 1, was riveting. His voice occasionally breaking with emotion, Shultz declared, ‘The Soviets tracked the commercial airliner for some two and a half hours.’ President Ronald Reagan soon appeared to add, ‘This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts that guide human relations among people everywhere. It was an […]
[…] trafficker and Contra supporter, had been released in the 1980s instead of now. Critics alleging a Contra-drug link would have been proven right, and the CIA’s and Reagan Administration’s routine denials exposed. The Contras might not have received another nickel. Thus the Administration, instead of arresting Meneses and Blandon, protected them. Later, Blandon became […]
