VIDEO – REAGAN ON THE OVERTHROW OF THE SHAH OF IRAN
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American History
THE ROCHE RECORD – BLOWBACK: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
February 2, 2011 by Frank Roche Chalmers Johnson’s book, “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire” was published in 2000. Johnson tells us the title referred to a term adopted by the CIA to refer to “…the unintended consequences of American policies.” Johnson cites examples of “Blowback” in the book including Okinawa, North & South Korea, Iran, Iraq,
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WHAT TODAY’S LEADERS CAN LEARN FROM REAGAN
US NEWS Obama, other presidents should embrace his sunny confidence By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: January 28, 2011 The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Ronald Reagan brings to mind my first revealing encounter with him. It was the result of the 1986 seizure by the Soviet KGB of the Moscow
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LESSONS ON EGYPT FROM CARTER AND THE SHAH
February 1, 2011 The fate of Iran after the U.S. abandoned its ally shows where events this week could lead. By RONEN BERGMAN The White House’s reaction to the rioting in Egypt is shortsighted—and typical of what is wrong with the Obama administration’s Middle East policy. Only days ago, President Hosni Mubarak was a longstanding
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WHEN REAGAN SPOKE TRUTH TO SOVIET POWER
January 31, 2011 Who is this Neanderthal, sniffed the journalistic elite. By PAUL KENGOR On Jan. 29, 1981, barely a week into Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the world got a no-nonsense education on how Reagan’s America would differ from that of his predecessor. During the first press conference, ABC’s Sam Donaldson asked the new president about
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WHAT CAUSED THE FINANCIAL CRISIS?
JANUARY 27, 2011 Congress’s inquiry commission is offering a simplistic narrative that could lead to the wrong policy reforms. By BILL THOMAS,KEITH HENNESSEY AND DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN Today, six members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission—created by the last Congress to investigate the causes of the financial crisis—are releasing their final report. Although the three of
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WORLD’S LARGEST EXTINCTION EXPLAINED BY WORLD’S LARGEST VOLCANIC ERUPTION
Published January 23, 2011 | FoxNews.com It must have been one hell of an eruption. About 250 million years ago, hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the planet, 95 percent of the primitive life developing in the sea was wiped out — and 70 percent of the
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THE STATE AGAINST BLACKS
JANUARY 22, 2011 ‘The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do. . . . And that is to destroy the black family.’ By JASON L. RILEY Devon, Pa. ‘Sometimes I sarcastically, perhaps cynically, say that I’m glad that I received virtually all of my education before it became fashionable for white
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CAN DEREGULATION WORK?
JANUARY 21, 2011 It was hard under Ronald Reagan. It will be impossible under Barack Obama. By PAUL H. RUBIN How successful is the president’s recently announced deregulatory initiative likely to be? Based on my experience at two regulatory agencies (the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Product Safety Commission) during the Reagan years, I
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