[PDF file]: Faustian Bargains Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas Joan Mellen London and New York: Bloomsbury; 2016, h/b, £18.99 P rofessor Mellen spoke about ‘Mac’ Wallace, who is one of the two subjects of this book, a couple of years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when […]
Impossible Knowledge Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth Todor Hristov London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £45 (UK), h/b The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish” Katharina Thalmann London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £29.99 (UK), p/b Robin Ramsay Todor Hristov alerted this reader in his short […]
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[PDF file]: […] Press, 2012, $17.00, p/b www.ProgressivePress.com The e-mail pitch was intriguing: a former Conservative MEP and journalist has written a big book about the Gladio network with ‘….entirely new accounts on the assassination of the ex Italian PM Aldo Moro, the Swedish premier Olof Palme and his star pupil Anna Lindh, and the real motives […]
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[PDF file]: […] most hereditary peerages, the House of Lords has continued to grow. With a membership of 810 it is now, absurdly, the largest unelected legislature in the world. New peers are created by the Monarch or via nominations from the leaders of the main parties in the House of Commons: a system without parallel elsewhere. […]
[PDF file]: […] 1976. Nevertheless, this reader certainly put the book down much better informed and, at the same time, seriously concerned that so much of what Miller reveals was new to him. It was during the Reagan-Thatcher years that the British so-called ‘private military companies’ first came into their own. Mercenaries had operated before then but, […]
[PDF file]: […] a US government bacteriologist working on germ warfare projects who was probably pushed to his death out of a tenth floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York in 1953. Reviewing the book led me to do some desultory research on the UK’s forays in to mind control drugs, and while I won’t […]
