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Consortium News
November 15, 2017
It then picks up its story line when Ronald Reagan comes to the White House. ... rebels trying to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. ... Grainy undercover photo supposedly of Nicaraguan official Federico Vaughan ... with maps to demonstrate American foreign policy in Central America.
ThePrint
November 13, 2017
... it was widely predicted that the US foreign policy would take a “disastrous turn”. ... is reputed to have said of an anti-communist tyrant in Nicaragua. ... of hardball politics over judicial nominations since the Reagan years, the ...
The Economist
November 9, 2017
Many people predicted that American foreign policy would take a disastrous turn. ... Optimists even speculate that he might emulate Ronald Reagan, ... Truman is reputed to have said of an anti-communist tyrant in Nicaragua.
Being Libertarian
November 7, 2017
Nicaraguan Contra Rebels: The scandal that made Oliver North ... and aided anti-communist death squads in the 1980s, and Reagan ... One of the common criticisms of libertarians is our hands-off approach to foreign policy, ...
Complex
November 4, 2017
Calls Iraq "greatest foreign policy mistakes in American history". via/ ... George H.W. Bush served as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, and he ... that the CIA either purposely ignored or somehow missed Nicaragua Contra ...
HowStuffWorks
November 3, 2017
... than 30 years ago, then-president Ronald Reagan pushed a foreign policy that included financial backing for "freedom fighters" in Nicaragua, ...
The American Interest
November 2, 2017
... months of Donald Trump, let's try a first-cut explication of his foreign policy. ... Ronald Reagan told the Soviets that he would rout them from ...
Artvoice
October 26, 2017
Caught between the schizophrenic nature of US Foreign policy with one arm of the executive ..... of the U.S. government to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, the Reagan administration having ... Left to rot in a Nicaraguan jail.
Consortium News
October 13, 2017
Special Report: When the Reagan administration launched ... well as for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, the CIA-organized paramilitary .... on psyops projects for the Philippines and Nicaragua, with the latter project codenamed “Niagara Falls. ...... Environment · Foreign Policy · Health Reform · Human Rights ...
TRT World
October 12, 2017
US President Harry Truman's personal foreign policy adviser, ... 1985-1986 – Reagan admits to a secret arms deals with Iran that broke a US embargo. ... who attempted to overthrow the left wing government in Nicaragua.
The Beacon
October 5, 2017
So the Christics helped Nicaragua's Sandinista junta by attacking the ... of former military and CIA officers was running U.S. foreign policy.
New Republic
September 27, 2017
The party has been divided on foreign policy since Vietnam, but .... Democrats controlled the House of Representatives during the whole of Reagan's term, ... aid to the Nicaraguan contras was the “defining issue” separating ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
July 3, 2017
Unlike their cynical, Old World counterparts, American statesmen could never be content with a realpolitik foreign policy based on Thucydides's ...
The Nation (blog)
May 21, 2017
During the era of Ronald Reagan, Nicaragua filed a case in International ... the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government. ... the lack of seriousness of the PML-N government on the foreign policy front.
Lawfare (blog)
April 19, 2017
The Evolution of American Foreign Policy is a classic of American ... Reagan's “politicization of the human rights cause” in Nicaragua and El ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 17, 2015
The Sandinista movement in Nicaragua had just overthrown pro-American ... Those deaths amounted to about 2 percent of the Nicaraguan ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
December 31, 1999
... favor of a more independent foreign policy and deeper relationships ... process to the detriment of the Reagan-backed Nicaraguan Contras.
UPROXX
September 28, 2017
... of Nicaragua, which winds up feeding into his business with the cartel. ... assessment of American foreign policy during the Reagan years.
New Republic
September 27, 2017
The party has been divided on foreign policy since Vietnam, but .... Democrats controlled the House of Representatives during the whole of Reagan's term, ... aid to the Nicaraguan contras was the “defining issue” separatingÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
September 19, 2017
... part of U.N. lore—along with the Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's quip, in 1987, “Remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies,” ... that he needs to achieve the very foreign-policy goals he outlined.
Center for Research on Globalization
September 14, 2017
“Secret” documents from the Reagan administration show how the U.S. .... ways to deliver the CIA's hardline foreign policy message to the American ... 50 K to support free TV activity outside Grenada” and “Nicaragua — $750ÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
September 11, 2017
... in response to politics in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the Reagan administration took executive action to stop deportations for 200,000 Nicaraguan exiles. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush, to advance his foreign policy,ÃÂ ...
Truthdig
September 7, 2017
President Reagan foreign policy was heavily shaped by a 1979 essay by ... from Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza to Iran's Shah Reza Pahlavi,ÃÂ ...
Daily Signal
September 7, 2017
CNN Documentary Gets Reagan's Legacy Wrong ... personally authorized the diversion of funds to the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. ... Well over half of “The Reagan Show” focuses on U.S. foreign policy, specificallyÃÂ ...
AlterNet
September 7, 2017
President Reagan foreign policy was heavily shaped by a 1979 essay by ... from Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza to Iran's Shah Reza Pahlavi,ÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
September 7, 2017
Let's begin with a televised speech by President Ronald Reagan on March 16, 1986. ... taken in Nicaragua, reportedly proving that top Nicaraguan officials were ... He had flown into a Nicaraguan airstrip with CIA cameras installed on ... Elliott Abrams, then in the State Department and still a foreign policyÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
September 6, 2017
The target of the disinformation was Nicaragua, the authors were the ... Let's begin with a televised speech by President Ronald Reagan on March 16, 1986. ... He had flown into a Nicaraguan airstrip with CIA cameras installed on his ... Elliott Abrams, then in the State Department and still a foreign policyÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
August 21, 2017
OPINION | To overcome crisis, Trump can be like Nixon or Reagan ... within the White House — pursued an independent and illegal foreign policy. ... of the illegally gained monies to Nicaraguan Contras who were barred fromÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
August 13, 2017
... Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and El Salvador, have condemned the Venezuelan government, ... carry a big stick, or from Ronald Reagan that power comes from a strong and consistent foreign policy, not overheated rhetoric.
The Intercept
August 9, 2017
... Jose on his way to the airport to board a flight to Nicaragua, June 28, 2009. ... U.S. foreign policy, with Atlas-associated think tanks receiving quiet funding ..... possible Ronald Reagan and the policies he was able to follow.”.
AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
August 9, 2017
... law when the Reagan administration interfered in the affairs of Nicaragua. .... The great Henry Kissinger, a foreign policy wonk that has ledÃÂ ...
Q Costa Rica News
August 4, 2017
... of his foreign policy, and the Somoza family received strong criticism for its abuses. The Nicaraguan National Guard had reportedly tortured civilians as ... Reagan in 1980, the State Department began to treat Nicaragua as aÃÂ ...
The Intercept
July 22, 2017
And then in Central America, the Reagan administration felt very threatened by the ... and two, to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. ... the deal of the Nicaraguan dealers who were brokering the sale of the import ... is one of the beloved figures in the bipartisan foreign policy consensus.
RTE.ie
July 21, 2017
... May and Donald Trump for Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan! .... such as the effects of US foreign policy in El Salvador and Nicaragua,ÃÂ ...
A.V. Club
July 21, 2017
Without some sort of knowledge of U.S. foreign policy in the '80s—of ... soldiers that were funded by the Reagan administration to fight back against the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. ..... Well shit I'm not american or Nicaraguan or Iranian and I had no trouble following the geopolitics of the story.
HuffPost
July 18, 2017
... in a civil war and the other (Nicaragua) due to sheer cussedness. .... He is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for PolicyÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
July 3, 2017
Yet now the very foundations of American foreign policy are being .... He was succeeded by Ronald Reagan, who did a masterly job of fusing might and ... and funded “freedom fighters” from Afghanistan to Nicaragua (some ofÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 17, 2015
The Sandinista movement in Nicaragua had just overthrown pro-American ... Those deaths amounted to about 2 percent of the NicaraguanÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
... threat to the foreign policy of the United States” and the leader (Mugabe) duly demonized. .... The same hypothesis could be used for Nicaragua, which also declared “an unusual and extraordinary threat” by Reagan. In theÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
It was in the 1980's that Kovalik had his political awakening during the war on Nicaragua where Reagan was arming drug dealing deathÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
December 31, 1999
The same murderous policy was pursued in Nicaragua while Abrams ... of the Trump administration in the foreign policy realm: even listing theÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
After being retained for several months by the incoming Reagan ... Mr. Pezzullo advocated a pragmatic, flexible foreign policy during his yearsÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 15, 2017
Democrats and liberals have climbed into bed with the neocons to push the "Russia-did-it" conspiracy theory as a way to "get Trump," but this New McCarthyism has grave dangers, writes Robert Parry.
LSU Now
March 14, 2017
Anti-communist resistance became a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy, and the "Reagan Doctrine" allowed the U.S.
Consortium News
March 13, 2017
For instance, when Brian Barger and I wrote the first story about Nicaraguan Contra drug trafficking in 1985 for The Associated Press, we had about two dozen sources, plus documents.
Diffuser.fm
March 10, 2017
Sometimes U2 frontman Bono claims it was inspired by his 1986 trip to El Salvador and Nicaragua. Other times, he says it came as a result of meeting a ... One of the things I hate is that such a trusting people could have put their trust in a guy like ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
March 8, 2017
Since the conception of the policy in 1984 under President Ronald Reagan, the Mexico City Policy has been rescinded by Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton in 1993 and Barack Obama in 2009, and re-enforced by former Republican President George W. Bush in ...
Consortium News
March 4, 2017
As it turned out, these "freedom fighters" in Syria were a chip off the old block from the violent, psychopathic U.S.-backed and CIA-trained paramilitary death squads, which would wreak havoc and terrorize El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras. In Syria ...
The Moderate Voice
March 4, 2017
How about Iran, Nicaragua, Egypt, Libya, Laos, Panama and Afghanistan, to name a few more?) And while we are piling on, Obama's Russia policy, like much of his foreign policy, was a hodgepodge of half-baked ideas and moveable lines in the sand. All ...
Huffington Post
February 27, 2017
During the Republican primaries Donald Trump was almost alone in resisting the call for U.S. military intervention in Syria. While some of his competitors advocated shooting down Russian planes, Trump pledged to focus on ISIS.
