[…] Waggoner Carr even provided the Warren Commission with Oswald’s FBI employee number and monthly salary. (12) It seems reasonable to speculate that the FBI heard of a conspiracy to kill the President centring on ultra-rightist elements in New Orleans, possibly using Mafia contract killers. (13) So Oswald is infiltrated into the group, to inform […]
[…] book, The Socialist International at Gunpoint, (Picton Publishing, Chippenham, 1988) is the reproduction of a MARA report on the Socialist International, portraying it as a global socialist conspiracy. At one level this MARA report is absurd: the idea of the Socialist International meaning anything is just funny. But the level of ignorance on the […]
[…] Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would be chucked in as well? Prominent among the author’s sources are Anthony Sutton, Gary Allen, of None Dare Call It Conspiracy fame, John Coleman, the Brit claiming to have been an MI6 officer, whose Committee of 300 – more utter tosh – is regularly quoted, and Eustace […]
[…] consultant who had represented OSS in the Operation Underworld negotiations with Meyer Lansky. For years Anslinger would uncritically transmit KMT propaganda about a world-wide Red Chinese opium conspiracy and document it persuasively with evidence of what he knew very well was in fact the KMT’s own narcotics traffic. Thus, Anslinger would use the term […]
[…] vast area of human political activity is consigned to a land marked ‘Here Be Monsters’. Anything in this land is a marvel, mere fable (or rather ‘ conspiracy theory’). Vast swathes of contemporary history and current state practice simply do not exist not, at least, until the files can be opened and academic […]
[…] of Spooks and Secret Agenda), who writes that ‘the parapolitical underground should consider whether or not it matters that they’ve got it right or wrong. If any conspiracy theory will do, then the Steamshovel Press should be regarded as a literary enterprise — like Fate or Granta. If, on the other hand, it seems […]
[…] self-righteousness of The Iron Triangle, ‘… all you’re left with is baseless innuendo… … this book should be exposed for what it is: a compilation of recycled conspiracy theories masquerading as investigative journalism.’ Given such a view it is hardly surprising that the Carlyle Group forbade its employees from talking to Briody. However, despite […]
[…] of it in subsequent summers, when I first suffered a major illness, and then was side-tracked into preparation of a trade book on the Kennedy Assassination (Beyond Conspiracy) that was eventually killed by its publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving ‘Transnationalised Repression’. Though the essay starts […]
[…] last word on the Diana case, a triumph for reason over the forces of conspiratorial thought. It is in fact a multi-million pound demolition of the sprawling conspiracy claims of Mohamed al-Fayed. Paget does not attempt to find the cause of the Paris crash – a task for the inquest – with only the […]
As a recent TV programme (James Bellini’s ‘The Polite Conspiracy’ 4th April 1984 BBC2) made clear, the rich have devised some artful ways of avoiding tax. Of course they also have a government committed to drastically reducing their tax ‘burden’ (e.g. Nigel Lawson’s abolition of investment income surcharge, formerly payable on high unearned incomes). […]
