[…] This is the book of the TV series on Channel 4 in 2001. Through a series of encounters Ronson presents various aspects of the current, predominantly American, conspiracy theory culture. A bit like Louis Theroux, Ronson tries to come across to his subjects as a completely harmless nebbisch in the hope that they won’t […]
A Very British Jihad: Collusion, conspiracy and cover-up in Northern Ireland Paul Larkin Belfast: Beyond the Pale, 2004, £10.99 p/back Larkin was an investigative journalist and producer for the BBC in Northern Ireland and this book is based round the TV programmes he made there about the paramilitaries and the British state in the […]
Tom Bower London: Fourth Estate, 2001, £6.99 After tackling the Paperclip Conspiracy, Klaus Barbie, Nazi medical experiments, looted cash from holocaust victims in Swiss banks and various tycoons (Rowland, Maxwell, Fayed) the latest target for a thorough Tom Bower investigation is Sir Richard Branson, though this is a tale on a smaller scale […]
[…] is new to me and, perhaps, to most Lobster readers. It is worthy of note as a splendid example of that relatively rare species, the British global conspiracy theory. Quite what Stuart’s ‘theory’ is, however, is less than clear. He writes variously of ‘International Finance-power capitalism”, “One World Monopolists”, “a World Federalist State”, the […]
[…] interview various experts. (5) Unfortunately, the remainder of the book enters into the realms of bizarre speculation, with sections headed ‘Agencies of Masonic Government’ and ‘The Bloodline Conspiracy’. The main thesis is that Diana was killed because she was being groomed as the figurehead of a campaign to usurp the House of Windsor (apparently […]
[…] with the seriousness it deserved. Information which has been collected since then means that its recent publication will make it an important lead in untangling the undoubted conspiracy formed around Agca’s “confessions”. The tale begins in 1981 when Ciro Cirillo, the Christian Democrat leader in Naples was kidnapped by the Red Brigades. Cirillo was […]
[…] Oswald?’, this appeared: ‘According to the Warren Commission, the man who killed John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a psychotic, acting alone. Not so, according to tireless conspiracy theorists, who speculate that Oswald, who had visited Moscow, was a K.G.B. “asset” in Dallas.’ Apart from Edward J. Epstein, lighting another candle at the shrine […]
[…] espionage and subversion in the United States. Indeed, the concern has been turned inside out; the real threat – according to the fashionable mythology – was a conspiracy on the part of the vicious power structure using the myth of a Communist menace to justify its aggressive designs abroad and the squelching of opposition […]
[…] 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 […]
The Last Flight of 007 L. Fletcher Prouty, (Gallery May 1985) The flight of KAL 007: Evidence of Conspiracy R.B.Cutler, (Cutler Publications, US 1985) “At one stage it seemed probable that the Freeze movement would halt the (MX) project altogether; only the providential shooting-down of the Korean airliner, KAL007, enabled Reagan to push his […]
