This is a collection of Websites, articles and obituaries,
telling another story about this right wing president, the reaganomics
and US foreign politics in the 1980's, the class war against the
workers, the rearmament against his idea of 'Empire of Evil', and the dark global legacy, like the arming of Contras and death squads in Central America and the Muhajedins in Afghanistan that Reagan left behind.
Suggestions of links to articles/obituaries from progressive sources are welcome. Please write to:
Disinfopedia
Ronald Reagan
Institute for Policy Studies
Marcus Raskin: Presidential disrespect : a history of presidential denigration from Washington to Clinton : Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Spartacus Educational
Ronald Reagan.
Third World Traveler
Ronald Reagan Page
Med særlig vægt på USAs undertrykkende udenrigspolitik i perioden.
Wikipedia : The Free Encyclopedia
Ronald Reagan.
AlterNet
Robert Parry: Was Ronald Reagan an even worse president than George W. Bush? (5. juni 2009).
"The starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency."
David Corn: Reagan and the media : a love story (14. juni 2004).
"The current Reagan-mania undercuts the old conservative bromide that the media are dishonest bastions filled to the brim with liberals."
Amanda Griscom: How green was The Gipper? (10. juni 2004)
"Reagan infamously declared that, 'trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.' Unlike Bush, his administration told you exactly what they were up to."
Centre for Research on Globalization
Bill Blum:Ronald Reagan's supposed role in ending the cold war (7. juni 2004).
"Ronald Reagan's biggest crimes were the bloody military actions to suppress social and political change in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Afghanistan, but I'd like to deal here with the media's gushing about Reagan's supposed role in ending the cold war. In actuality, he prolonged it."
Common Dreams
Jonathan Steele: He lied and cheated in the name of anti-communism : From Iraq, Reagan didn't look so Freedom-loving (11. juni 2004).
"It was detente that made the end of the cold war possible, and without Reagan's blind anti-communism it could have come at least four years earlier."
Reagan played decisive role in Saddam Hussein's survival in Iran-Iraq War (9. juni 2004).
"The Reagan administration opened full diplomatic relations with Baghdad in November, 1984. Iraqi chemical attacks continued not only on Iranian forces but also on Kurdish civilians, notably at Hallabja in 1987..."
Amy Goodman: Noam Chomsky on Reagan's legacy (7. juni 2004).
"Bush has resurrected 'the most extremist, arrogant, violent and dangerous elements' of Reagan's White House."
Mark Weisbrot: Ronald Reagan's legacy (7. juni 2004).
"Ronald Regan … changed not only the conservative movement, the Republican party, his country and the world - but also his opponents, known as liberals. As a result of his achievements, the typical liberal Member of Congress today sits to the right of Richard Nixon on a number of economic issues, including tax policy." Artiklen er oversat til dansk i dagbladet Information: Reagans dystre arv (9. juni 2004).
CounterPunch
Norm Dixon: How Reagan armed Saddam with chemical weapons (17. juni 2004).
"Not only did Ronald Reagan's Washington turn a blind-eye to the Hussein regime's repeated use of chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and Iraq's Kurdish minority, but the US helped Iraq develop its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs."
Zeynep Toufe: Ronald Reagan, Neo-Cons and the 'Intelligence failures' : deja vu all over again (10. juni 2004).
"United in a fervent desire to praise Reagan, not bury him, the pundit class seems to have agreed that, no matter what else they might say about him, Reagan won the cold war by outspending the Soviets and forcing them into bankruptcy. It's a neat story, except that it's not what happened."
Jeffrey St. Clair: The nature of Ronald Reagan : will the earth accept his corpse? (8. juni 2004).
"During the pitched battles to save some of the world's largest trees …Reagan [made] his infamous declaration: 'Once you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.' Later, Reagan propounded the thesis that trees generated more air pollution than coal-fired power plants. For the Gipper, the only excuse for Nature was to serve as a backdrop for photo-ops, just like in his intros for Death Valley Days."
Dennis Hans: From Afghanistan to El Salvador : Reagan's dark global legacy (7. juni 2004).
Phil Gasper: Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 : goodbye and good riddance (5.-6. juni 2004).
"Ronald Reagan has finally died at age 93. Predictably, politicians from both major parties have issued gushing tributes to this venal and vicious man, who was happy to slash workers' wages, see families thrown onto the street, support sadistic death squads and bomb other countries, if this was in the interests of the American ruling class."
Democracy Now!
Remembering the dead : Democracy Now special coverage of Reagan's presidency:
The Reagan years, Central America and the Iran-Contra scandal, The Middle East, The nuclear race.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Media advisory: Reagan : media myth and reality
"As the media spend the week memorializing Ronald Reagan, journalists are redefining the former president's life and accomplishments with a stream of hagiographies that frequently skew the facts and gloss over scandal and criticism."
Focus on Trade
Walden Bello: Ronald Reagan : a view from the Global South (nr.100, juni 2004)
"If I were asked what epitaph I would write for Ronald Reagan, it would be: Here lies a man who was good for the upper 20 per cent of his fellow Americans and his rich and powerful buddies elsewhere, but bad for the rest of us."
In Defence of Marxism
Rob Lyon: A farewell to Ronald Reagan (14. juni 2004).
"Former US president Ronald Reagan passed away on June 5. The state funeral, which was little more than a crude exercise in propaganda on the part of the Bush administration, was held the following weekend. The historical revision at the ceremony was astonishing. The working class of the United States and the world must know and understand the real legacy and meaning of the Reagan years in order to understand the lessons of the past and lead the struggle against capitalism and imperialism today."
Media Monitors Network
Ahmed Amr: In Reagan we trust? Keep that man off my money (11. juni 2004).
"Instead of standing firm against the horrors of Apartheid, Reagan and Bush senior opted for 'constructive engagement' with South Africa. In Central America's killing fields, Reagan's administration left abundant testimony to his foreign policy legacy. The Sandinistas posed as much threat to American national security as the well-armed residents of Atlantis."
The Nation
Editorial: The Reagan legacy (28. juni 2004).
"Ronald Reagan was the worst American leader since Herbert Hoover."
William Greider: The Gipper's economy/The failure of Reaganomics (28. juni 2004).
"The illusions fostered by the Gipper's sunny messages did the gravest economic damage."
Jonathan Schell: Cold War to Star Wars (28. juni 2004).
"Perhaps the most important question - for present policy-makers as well as historians - posed by the presidency of Ronald Reagan is what role he played in ending the cold war."
Marc Hertsgaard: Belowed by the media (28. juni 2004).
"Hertsgaard explains why the media played along with Reagan's PR machine".
Alexander Cockburn: Reagan in truth and fiction (28. juni 2004).
"As an orator or 'communicator' he was terrible, with one turgid cliché following another, delivered in a folksy drone punctuated by wags of the head. There was no internationally recognized border in Reagan's mind between fantasy and fact."
Reagans legacy
"Selected Nation articles about the 40th President."
Progressive Review
Sam Smith: Bottom Line: The true costs of Reagan and extreme capitalism.
".. This was the real Reagan, one that barely surfaced in his lifetime and had largely disappeared by the time of his absurd death fest, in no small part thanks to a media that quickly adopted the icon's language, clichés and premises. Reagan transformed American politics into show business .."
Sam Smith: The biggest Reagan lie (7. juni 2004).
"The biggest Reagan lie is that he won the Cold War by terrifying the Soviets with Star Wars, upping defense expenditures, and generally being such a tough guy. The myth, though basically just GOP campaign spin, has been widely promulgated in current news coverage. The facts of the matter are quite different."
Socialist Worker (UK)
Chris Harman: Ronald Reagan : if only the bloody thug have died 20 years earlier (nr.1905, 10. juni 2004).
"He was a killer who was prepared to commit any crime in the interests of increasing the power which the rich of the world-and of the US in particular-exercised over the world's poor."
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Socialist Worker (US)
Good riddance : bigot, liar, mass murderer (nr.503, 11. juni 2004).
"The corporate media have filled the airwaves with days on end of nauseating tributes to Ronald Reagan. Here, Alan Mass and Lee Sustar tell the truth about this disgusting bigot."
Truthdig
Allen Barra: The myth of Ronald Reagan (13. februar 2009).
Review of William Kleinknecht's The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America (Nation Books, 2009)
"The book is the most concise and well-thought-out argument against Reagan."
Truthout
Steve Weissman: Bush is no Reagan, but ... (10. juni 2004).
"Nowhere do we see the lineage more clearly than in the transcendent myth of Reagan's reign, that he won the Cold War and caused the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Reagan himself claimed the victory, and the first Bush Administration honed the legend to perfection. Now, even Reagan's staunchest critics believe it true, at least in good part."
William Rivers Pitt: Planet Reagan (7. juni 2004).
"The truth is straightforward: Virtually every significant problem facing the American people today can be traced back to the policies and people that came from the Reagan administration. It is a laundry list of ills, woes and disasters that has all of us, once again, staring apocalypse in the eye."
World Socialist Web Site
David North: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 : an obituary (9. juni 2004).
"Though Reagan has departed this world, the accomplishments of his administration live on and are observable everywhere: in the staggering growth of social inequality in the United States, in the grotesque concentration of wealth in the hands of a small segment of American society, in the shocking decline of literacy and the general level of culture, in the utter putrefaction of the institutions of American democracy, and, finally, in the murderous eruption of American militarism."
ZNet
Russel Mokhiber and Robert Weissman: Reagan the paradigm shifter (12. juni 2004).
"He was ... a 'regime-changer', moving decisively to end the flagging New Deal era and launching the modern period of corporate rule."
Noam Chomsky: The Reagan era (11. juni 2004)
Excerpted from Chomsky's book: Deterring Democracy, 1991.
David Edwards: Reagan : visions of the damned (10. juni 2004).
"The intensity of the patriotic focus surrounding D-Day, and also the death of Ronald Reagan, suggests a state-corporate system desperately trying to reassert its credibility after a catastrophic failure of propaganda over Iraq. Apart from tiny glimmers of mode 1 functioning ('fig leaf'), the media has been in full tilt propaganda mode 2 ('full propaganda') over Reagan."
+ David Cromwell: Visions of the Damned. Part 2 (16. juni 2004).
Greg Palast: Killer, coward, conman : more proof only the good die young (8. juni 2004)
"You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer."
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