Reagan
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Media Lens: Death Of A Bogeyman – The Corporate Media Bury Hugo Chávez By David Edwards
What lies behind the Western media’s obsession with Chávez? Why the extreme hostility and bias? A clue was provided by the Guardian when it observed that Venezuela is sitting on ‘The world’s biggest oil reserves’… One of the great tasks of our time is to appreciate how these undeniable realities distort coverage right across the… Continue reading
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Too Fat to Vote By Greg Palast
You know why black folk in the south don’t vote? According to the New York Times and the experts at the Pew Charitable Trust, they’re just too damn fat! Continue reading
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Presidential Elections: Powerful “Special Interest Groups” Won Again By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
As readers know, I don’t think that either candidate is a good choice or that either offers a choice. Washington is controlled by powerful interest groups, not by elections. What the two parties fight over is not alternative political visions and different legislative agendas, but which party gets to be the whore for Wall Street,… Continue reading
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SWEET HOME CHICAGO: G8 MTG MOVED BUT PROTESTS WILL CONTINUE By Danny Schechter
Did the Obama alumni Association in Chicago—David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Bill Daley—get nervous and call the White House, or was it Barack himself, having disposed/co-opted one threat by the name of Netanyahu, who recognized he had a more serious problem the horizon. Continue reading
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The October Surprise File December 22, 1988
[The following time line of 1980 Reagan Campaign Deal With Iran was mailed to me along with a packet of newspaper clippings that support the “October Surprise” theory that I had previously posted. Reading all the clippings (from everything from the Huntsville Times to the San Francisco Examiner) makes me feel better about the mainstream… Continue reading
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Confronting the New Imperialism…Post Cold-War Africa By Xavier Renou
We have now seen what happened in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya during this past year, in both instances to allow non-African countries, ostensibly mandated by the UN Security Council, and regardless of African opinion, to remove the sitting governments by force and thus effect regime change, in the interest of the Western powers. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 January 2012: Republican Cannibals / Stop, Frisk, Gentrify / Obama Right of Reagan
4 January 2012 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left The GOP Savages Itself, While Wall Street and Backs the Black Guy, Again by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Republican Party presidential campaign has been relegated to a sideshow in the American power game. The white nationalist masses Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 3-4 January 2012
4 January 2012 — williambowles.info 4 January 2012Iran/Iraq ‘Defectors’ and Disinformation GlobalResearch.ca Today at 22:45 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Video: Russian navy in Syria: Thorn in US side — RT
The US-based intelligence-gathering firm Stratfor says most of the claims by the Syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country’s crisis are untrue. The company insists protesters are exaggerating, to win support from powers like the US. Continue reading
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VIDEO: Iran Contra at 25: Reagan and Bush ‘Criminal Liability’ Evaluations
Washington D.C., November 25, 2011 – President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of “criminal liability”… Continue reading
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VIDEO: Iran Contra at 25: Reagan and Bush 'Criminal Liability' Evaluations
Washington D.C., November 25, 2011 – President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of “criminal liability”… Continue reading
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BREAKING: Report suggests Israel linked to Irangate Scandal
‘New’ documents just released via declassification reveal Israel’s role in the Iran-Contra Affair that rocked the Reagan administration in the 1980s. Continue reading
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NSA: IRAN CONTRA AT 25: REAGAN AND BUSH ‘CRIMINAL LIABILITY’ EVALUATIONS
President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of “criminal liability” on the part of the two… Continue reading
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Stop NATO news: November 24, 2011
24 November 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Encirclement: Russia Strikes Back With Missile Warning Chicago NATO Summit Can Be Point Of No Return For Missile Crisis Russia’s Tough Talk On Missile Defense Reveals Impatience With U.S. Syria: France, Turkey Push Foreign Intervention Russia Determined Not To Repeat Libyan Scenario In Syria NATO Troops Launch Fresh Continue reading
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Imperial Massacres By Alexander Cockburn
At all events, since Qaddafi was a prisoner at the time of his execution, it was a war crime and I trust that in the years of her retirement Mrs Clinton will be detained amid some foreign vacation and handed a subpoena. Continue reading
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El Salvador: The Truth Commission and the Jesuit Massacre
The outbreak of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1980 initiated twelve years of violent conflict within Central America’s most densely populated nation. For years, President Ronald Reagan employed a traditional Cold War platform to reinforce conservative governments, insisting that the leftist insurgency organization, the Frente Faribundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), posed a dangerous… Continue reading
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Reagan Made S&L Crisis Vastly Worse
William K. Black: Reagan obstructed prosecutions against a wave of fraud Continue reading
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Reaganomics Sucked Wealth Up, Did Not Trickle It Down
Michael Hudson on Reagan Centennial: Creating an economy for predators is not respect for a “free market” Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil's Island By William Blum
… I’m standing in the snow in front of the White House … Standing with Veterans for Peace … I’m only a veteran of standing in front of the White House; the first time was February 1965, handing out flyers against the war in Vietnam. I was working for the State Department at the time… Continue reading
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Reagan’s ghost: Starwars stops START By Eric Walberg
Russian confidence that US President Barack Obama might represent a fundamental change in the direction of US foreign policy is fast eroding. Even pro-Western analyst Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre reflects, “The people who see Russia as a problem are still at the Pentagon,” and he predicts that even if Obama lasts… Continue reading
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