[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Myth of the Lone Wolf Robin Ramsay, Undercurrents No 62. Jan./Feb. 1984 Written nearly three years ago, and essentially an immediate response to the Hinkley attempt on Reagan, pointing out the obvious inconsistencies in the press reports. Much has happened since. Hinkley has spoken of the group he was part of (reported on NBC’s […]
[…] clear that MI5 thought they could fight the war/conflict with the PIRA to a finish, and that the Americans, excepting bits of Cold War rhetoric from the Reagan era, have always supported at least the possibility of a negotiated settlement, one which would necessarily involve compromise. Without buying into Enoch Powell’s notion that the […]
[…] of the US Information Agency, and James A. Baker, White House Chief of Staff. (International Herald Tribune 5th January 1984). Wicks asked Baker to arrange for President Reagan to meet a group of businessmen he had put together under the banner ‘Project Democracy’, a propaganda effort to ‘support democratic institutions abroad’. They were to […]
[…] for Puharich. His home (where he was training 20 or so young people in ESP/’Remote Viewing’) was destroyed in an arson attack. He moved to Mexico. The Reagan years finally brought Tesla concepts back into the public domain (though without his name being mentioned) with the abortive Star Wars project — the siting of […]
[…] that military spending; and in the end US capitalism is first and foremost interested in its own health, regardless of the niceties of ideology. Somewhere inside the Reagan administration the US business world has been ringing alarm bells about US military spending, just as it did in the late 1960s over expenditure on the […]
Nexus: postmodernism or what? I wonder what posterity will make of Nexus magazine. It continues to be just about the most fascinating and the most infuriating thing which plops through my letter-box. Take the April-May 2000 issue. On the positive side there is a very interesting and maybe very important piece on the soya bean, […]
In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patricia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving into a […]
