Here is a new angle on an old line about the Vietnam War. Going
through an issue of the NYRB last night from last yr. saw notice
of new academic book that alleges Shell Oil, in contravention
of trade sanctions regime, I'd assume,
shipped oil and inverstment capital to N. Vietnam during the
U.S. a
Barkley writes:
> So, we can carve
>Bush's face on Mount Rushmore after they get done doing
>Reagan's up there
here in L.A., we have the Ronald Reagan State Office Building, otherwise
known as the Ronald Reagan SOB.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Subject: [PEN-L:9564] Re: Reaganite ideological war
> At 02:03 PM 3/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >For those like michael perelman who are betting that
> >a recession will turn this around, let me remi
At 02:03 PM 3/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
>For those like michael perelman who are betting that
>a recession will turn this around, let me remind that the
>recession of 1982 was the worst since the Great Depression.
>It did slow Reagan down by sharply increasing Dem strength
>in the Congress. But in
> I am very much against the trend around these lists to disdain any
conspiracy theories on today's politics. The ruling class had a conscious
policy to make Reagan look good. No more Watergates ! was the discipline of
the ruling class at the time.
>
> On the monopoly media methods, see Michael P
A point of clarification, please: I did not say that the recession
would save the Democrats. What I did say was that I feared that an
incompetent Gore administration would have trouble recovery from its
association with the recession.
What happened in 1982 was different. The dominant impressio
