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Reagan admin ‘hyped Soviet failures into threats,’ documents show

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: April 30, 2010
Daniel Tencer/Raw Story In its efforts to keep Congress funding huge military budgets in the 1980s, the Reagan administration exaggerated the threat from the Soviet Union’s military projects, newly published documents show.
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Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 31, 2010
Glenn Greenwald/Salon So that’s where the American consensus now lies. The practices used by Britain, Spain, India and Indonesia (and the Reagan administration) of treating Terrorists as criminals and convicting them in normal courts — with due process — is too fringe Leftist for the United States, which has spent decades sermonizing to the rest [...]
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