[…] (He was also keen on astrology, which is frowned on in evangelical circles in the normal run of things). Nevertheless Reagan appreciated the value of the evangelical vote and recognised that Falwell’s organisation Moral Majority could deliver. At a meeting of the Religious Roundtable in October 1979, Reagan famously declared to an audience of […]
[…] formed the Social Democratic Party in the 1970s. Cavendish notes in his letter that the Democratic Prty was set up ‘to attract Labour voters who would never vote Tory’, and folded when Donnelly died. Among the other founders Cavendish lists Maurice Buckmaster (a big-wig in SOE) and Air Marshal Johnny Johnson. (b) An indexing […]
Mandy’s place in things On 12 June 1999 The News, Portugal’s weekly English-language paper, ran this comment on the Bilderberg meeting which had then just taken place in Portugal. The 47th Bilderberg Conference has come to an end. Members and one-off participants have departed as discreetly as they arrived. Lines of black limousines, unmarked except […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] far to the right. There’s not much of a living to made in America by being a lefty writer, is there? Hitchens’ writing is collected at . Vote fraud 2004 Meanwhile, more or less unreported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of the Republican theft of the 2004 […]
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
[…] 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 […]
Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The … Read more
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
[…] 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 […]
