[…] things have changed since this issue. A sample copy for $5 from PO Box 9, Franklin Park, NJ 08823-0009, USA. I have issue 2 of Paranoia, The Conspiracy Reader, which began this year. This is very nicely produced, 24 pages with a glossy cover and illustrations, but the material is distinctly patchy. So issue […]
[…] be said that I am hardly the first to suggest that the Jonestown massacre was the outcome of someone’s secret machinations. The affair is inherently mysterious, and conspiracy theories abound – the most prominent among them that ‘Jonestown’ was a CIA mind-control experiment. The view has been put forward in a number of venues. […]
[…] could go on but mocking this delusional system of belief is too easy to be much fun. The LaRouche nonsense is only interesting to those who collect conspiracy theories. Since the John Birch Society’s reworking of Nesta Webster, there have been very few authentically modern conspiracy theories. LaRouche has produced one. Is it more […]
[…] Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/mlk/part1.htm (June 2000) This report, resulting from a DoJ investigation, rejects allegations of a conspiracy surrounding James Earl Ray and MLK’s assassination, and recommends no further federal investigation related to the assassination unless and until reliable substantiating facts are presented. Vietnam […]
[…] go into the interview in Lobster 7 was why so little work had been done on the Robert Kennedy assassination. After all, at first glance, the ‘ conspiracy angle’ was quite plain: the autopsy proved – without qualification – that Sirhan Sirhan didn’t (couldn’t have) fired the shots which killed Robert Kennedy. Scott’s answer […]
Neil Nixon Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2002; £3.99 Pocket Essentials are the publishers who have had the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However […]
[…] a dissenting voice trying to operate within mainstream American media. Yep, despite the conspiracy-laden history of American since 1963 — hell’s teeth, U.S. domestic political history is conspiracy — the accusation of ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still the main weapon of intellectual coercion among the Higher Media. Chasing the story the U.S. government least wanted […]
[…] collection with a survey of research developing in these fields now that the Cold War is over, and includes his now customary warning of the dangers of conspiracy theorising – citing James Angleton as an example of what can happen: ‘Once contracted, conspiracy theory is an incurable condition.’ As usual, the irony of that […]
[…] case still trundles along; in 1968 de Courcy was awarded costs of £6,000 and all claims against him were ‘released and extinguished’. At the centre of the conspiracy, de Courcy claims, was a circle of former intelligence officers, friends of Rothschild and Philby. In September 1963 de Courcy wrote a remarkable series of letters. […]
[…] publisher e-mailed me recently: ‘There is further an enormous reluctance among publishers to stick their necks out in areas like this. After all, if true, the 9-11 conspiracy renders the last 3 years of history into a nightmarish farce. Consciously or not publishers exist inside the dom-inant narratives of their culture. Even if someone […]
