[…] the old-fashioned political tactics its role was to be seminal in the founding of the National Front in 1967.’ Candour was a platform for A.K. Chesterton’s ‘simplistic conspiracy theory’ of Jewish bankers controlling the world. (3) Notes George Thayer, The British Political Fringe: A Profile (Anthony Blond 1965), p.58. Thanks are due to N. […]
[…] the Assassins, (Ali Agca, run by the KGB, shot the Pope), and The Terror Network (KGB running world terrorism), which did much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced […]
JFK bits and pieces Paul Hoch recommends JFK:The Book of the Film (Applause Books, 211 West 71 St NY, NY 10023). This contains a footnoted JFK screenplay and about 350 pages of published articles, including some of the best anti-Stone stories. The final badge of honour was bestowed upon Stone’s movie by a long, ludicrous … Read more
[…] something else? Was the week’s notice not an invitation from the inspectors to the hospital managers to do this? Was the whole procedure, in effect, not a conspiracy between the inspectors and the managers to produce the ‘good results’ desired by the government? Notes 1 Marie Woolf, ‘Britain tells America how to avoid “friendly […]
[…] harmless and (b) prevented tooth decay, it wasn’t helped by being adopted by the John Birch Society. Their belief, that fluoridation was part of the international communist conspiracy, was put into the mouth of the character Jack. D. Ripper, the demented commander of the US Air Force base in England, who had dispatched nuclear […]
[…] ‘accident’), in October 1983. As far as we are aware there is as yet no detailed study of the event, nor any plausible explanation of it. U.S. conspiracy buffs, accustomed to scenarios in which liberals/leftists – Kennedys, King, Panthers – are assassinated by the right-wing, seem to be both confused by, and disinterested in, […]
[…] the effects of America’s anti-Soviet obsession on Italian politics and what stemmed from it: corruption of all institutions, including the Catholic Church; drugs, violence, terrorism and assassination; conspiracy, literally, as normal politics; disinformation by the barrow-load. This book is full of incredible stories, leads, hints and allegations across 30 years of post-WW2 history. No […]
[…] stealth and lying. Young, of course, can’t quite bring himself to write of lying and he gives us a variety of euphemisms. ‘deceptive reassurance’ (p. 293) ‘ conspiracy of silence’ (p. 251) ‘near-duplicity’ (p. 249) ‘disguising’ (p. 248) ‘Ministers did not lie but they avoided telling the whole truth.'(p. 247) ‘Disguising’, for example, comes […]
[…] evidence that Phillips was involved in the circulation of disinformation about the killing after the fact, oddly enough, of evidence that Phillips was involved in the actual conspiracy there is not a word. Outlined like this it may not sound much, but this is a really good book, one of the best three or […]
[…] concrete evidence that Saudi royals sponsor terrorism, he repeats Posner’s claim. Unger also refers to Edward James Epstein’s website, but sadly doesn’t repeat my favourite Bush I conspiracy anecdote the one about the FBI memo in which ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency’ denounced a Republican (!) political rival, for JFK-assassination-related […]
