[…] for American Studies 2002 Annual Postgraduate Conference, this draws on newly available archival evidence to document the origins of the Bilderberg Group. It also considers the various conspiracy theories which have attached themselves to the Group. Is it a CIA plot to undermine socialism or a socialist conspiracy to destroy the US’s capitalist, democratic […]
[…] porno mag. owned by Larry Flynt. Much of what follows is lifted from that. LAPD had set up the Public Disorder and Intelligence Division and the Criminal Conspiracy Section (PDID and CCS) in the 1960s. In 1971 one of the CCS agent provocateurs, Louis Tackwood (a black), began exposing their activities. Tackwood later wrote […]
Kenn Thomas Illuminet Press, Lilburn, GA 30048 USA, 1999, $14.95 www.illuminetpress.com The Crisman in the book’s title is a man called Fred Lee Crisman who is one of only two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is … Read more
[…] people to walk through and see the career prospects ahead if they follow the general line. Grooves of academe Here come the academics, homing in on conspiracy theories. As well as the Peter Knight book reviewed in this issue by Tony Frewin, we have had recently his collection Conspiracy Nation:the politics of paranoia […]
[…] with Callaghan’s establishment of his 1976 economic seminar to accommodate the demands of the IMF (in which experts outnumbered politicians two to one) and changes to the conspiracy laws in 1977. The latter criminalised much trade union activity and other expressions of dissent and led to the show trial of Des Warren and the […]
[…] via the ballot box – Labour received 37.1% of the votes in the February 1974 election and the Communist Party 0.1% – mattered not.(55) A secret communist conspiracy was, by definition, secret. Tony Benn was the focus of the anxieties at parliamentary level. In this period he was being surveilled, bugged, wire-tapped, harassed and […]
[…] 33 are tremendously useful in understanding the recent political changes in the UK, and also in understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion of the U.S. mall culture. The U.S. […]
[…] if the organisers of the exhibition knew that they did not identify the passengers using DNA, then the number of people who are engaged in the 9/11 conspiracy is getting rather large; and this makes the notion of a conspiracy less plausible. Henshall refers to the DNA identification of the bodies and offers another […]
[…] point of this campaign was a story by Tim Golden of the New York Times, which explained that African-Americans are more susceptible than their fellow citizens to conspiracy theories and paranoia. But it’s not necessarily paranoid to note what crack has done to our cities, or that the U.S. prison population has tripled over […]
[…] what we all know already – the Zinoviev letter was a fake, passed to the Daily Mail by Tory-supporting intelligence officers – combined with the classic ‘no conspiracy’ line. In this case, since the letter is an acknowledged forgery, and there was a conspiracy, there are two specious cop-outs. Not only is there ‘no […]
