The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000 Sally Denton and Roger Morris London: Pimlico, 2002, pb, £15 John Burnes It’s hardly news that Las Vegas was a city run by the Mob. Or that it was fuelled by financial corruption. Or that both of these … Read more
[…] the East End of London, the fact remains, as Dorril points out, that the BUF could not elect a single councillor, let alone an MP. Its highest vote was in Bethnal Green in March 1937 when a BUF council candidate got 23% of the vote. From this point of view, the role of anti-Semitism […]
[…] quickly. This has been a long campaign on Merseyside in which an enormous amount of educational activities have been going on. When the Police Authority came to vote on the issue even the magistrates voted for the refusal! Chris Pounder, who has been acting as an adviser to the Merseyside Police Authority on this […]
[…] immediately it began to slip away from the politicians’ concept. In September 1948 the first head, Ralph Murray, suggested transferring part of the costs to the secret vote. ‘The need to recruit specialist staff, free from the limitations of civil service pay and conditions’ was ‘one of the considerations’. More importantly, ‘In addition, the […]
[…] on the Riviera. I love Cafarkis. And liver.’ ‘Mary Jo’s intestines were chopped into hors d’ouevres – wafers for brave, free Americans who support us and will vote me queen. Courtesy of Ma and Pa Kopechne, who clutch Cushing’s crosses saying “We don’t care if it was murder. We are satisfied.” On to Fatima […]
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was held … Read more
Since the Berlin Wall fell the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known … Read more
[…] themselves as evangelical Christians, and a quarter believed they were living in the ‘end times’. That is a huge number: the equivalent of half of those who vote in Presidential elections. Premillennialism has also, Northcott thinks, influenced American religion more generally, making it much more Manichaean (the ‘good/evil’ thing), antisocial, crusading and war-like than […]
[…] as a Rhodes Scholar; and that Clinton referred to Quigley in his acceptance speech to the Democratic Party convention. Holy moley! Clinton makes pitch for conspiracy buff vote? Birchers in hog heaven! As Daniel Brandt points out in his essay in this issue, Clinton had been at a Bilderberg meeting in 1991, is a […]
[…] versus capitalism); corporations having rights as individuals, an individual having absolute right; the KGB, the CIA; rule by elites, one by decree, the other in a popular vote; ever-expanding territorial land grab towards their Pacific and Arctic meeting points; destinies pursued With God On Our Side and many more. Briefly, some things which the […]
