why are these professional war peddlers still around?
Bill Kristol is probably the most influential Republican strategist of the post-Reagan era. ..…
the democrats’ ‘anti-hate’ resolution is the ultimate insult to
In Jersey City, the way to organize for Reagan in 1980was by joining with Democrat Mayor Gerald McCann in Democrats for Reagan — because there were no Republicans. ... One day the Democrats walked away from the world that had attracted Ronald Reagan. ..…
internet wars: u.s. plans to overthrow the cuban revolution with new
President Ronald Reagan singed executive order 12323, establishing the “Presidential Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba,” tasked with developing a recommended plan for radio broadcasting intended for transmission to Cuba, such as Radio Martí. . - May 20, 1985: . Radio Martí hits the airwaves..…
capitalism and the reactionary power of white identity politics
“Cartoonish rhetoric proliferated,” Jefferson Cowie explains in The Great Exception, “For example, the suggestion that working peoples’ taxes were being pipelined directly to black welfare recipients, a racist fantasy catalyzed by Reagan’s Cadillac-driving ‘welfare queen’ stories, which..…
progressives must agree to disagree about the israeli-palestinian
These different views on Israel, divided the anti-Vietnam War in the 0s, weakening its power, and helping lead to Nixon's in 1968 and Reagan's in 1980, much as similar issues are dividing progressives today and strengthening Republican right.. ..…
anti-war
By Martha Grevatt February 22, 2019 Elliott Abrams, the architect of Ronald Reagan's war Central America,.. ..…
tea, taxes, and the revolution – foreign policy
By some measures, federal taxes are lower today than they were in the past: Today’s top marginal tax rate for individuals is 35 percent, which is higher than Ronald Reagan’s 28 percent but lower than Dwight Eisenhower’s 90 percent. ..…
telling the truth about islam always gets you in trouble with
Documents seized showed that Dellums had coordinated his domestic opposition to Reagan’s Grenada policy with the communist junta in Grenada, going so far as to provide draft reports for the regime to edit before being published by the House of Representatives. . ..…
america created al-qaeda and the isis terror group - global
The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan, General William Odom recently remarked, “by any measure the U.S. has long used terrorism. ..…
daughter of former uzbek president charged in $1 billion bribery
District Judge Kimba Wood, a Reagan-appointee. . Berman described the announcement as “the third installment in a trilogy of cases” that have implicated the highest reaches of the Uzbekistan government and some of the largest telecom companies in the world. . ..…
women's day 2019: from afghanistan to syria: women’s rights, war
(Michel Chossudovsky, 9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001, Global Research, September 09, 2010) . ... Ronald Reagan meeting with the Taliban in 1985: ‘”These gentlemen (the Taliban) are the moral equivalents of America’s..…
madison man sentenced to 17 1/2 years for belleville bank robbery
Reagan took into Pasley's criminal history, specifically his history of violence, calling it horrendous.. ..…
america’s torch song for tehran
For all his bluster, Ronald Reagan tried too. It began with his sincere desire to free American hostages being held by Iranian allies and proxies in Lebanon in the mid-1980s. ... Indeed, some of Reagan’s key subordinates hoped that it could be the start of a wider rapprochement and..…
u.s. attorney general: above the law
I still remember during the Reagan years when his Attorney General, Edwin Meese, tried to feign his so-called 'morality' by declaring a 'war on pornography.' . ... For example, while serving as Reagan's Chief of Staff in California, Meese essentially greenlighted excessive police tactics to..…
joe biden would be the oldest sitting president if elected in 2020
President Ronald Reagan was the president of United States and helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured Soviet Union to end Cold War. ... Bush was the president of United States and served as president under Ronald Reagan. ..…
us-russian ‘meddling’
The second is, of course, the best known, Cold War from about 1948 to 1988, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, declared it over. ..…
judge defies mueller, hands manafort lenient sentence
Ellis, appointed to the bench by Republican former President Ronald Reagan, called the sentence sufficiently punitive, that Manafort's time already served would be subtracted from the 47 months. ..…
tell the holocaust memorial museum: drop elliott abrams
Working in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, Abrams helped lead and cover up some of the most inhumane acts of American foreign policy history in recent years. As an assistant secretary of state for Reagan, Abrams helped cover up the mass murder of over 800 villagers by a..…
pelosi: new immigrants must not have their votes suppressed
“[President Reagan] went on to say, though, after talking about the Statue of Liberty: ‘The vital force of America’s preeminence in the world is every new generation of immigrants who come to our country. ..…
u.s. judge gives trump ex-aide manafort leniency: under four years in
Ellis, appointed to the bench by Republican former President Ronald Reagan, called the sentence sufficiently punitive, that Manafort's time already served would be subtracted from the 47-month sentence. ..…
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