[…] issue. Between issues 23 and 24 when I rang to arrange a meeting he told me he was too busy writing the book which became The Silent Conspiracy to meet me to discuss Lobster24. OK, thought I, this is silly: too busy to meet to even discuss the magazine which carries your name? I […]
[…] U.S. Department of State. Identifying Misinformation aims to put paid to rumours and ill-founded tales that might show the USA in a bad light. With sections including Conspiracy Theories (‘Did the US “create” Osama bin Laden?’), Military Misinformation (‘Depleted uranium’), and Deliberate Disinformation (‘Saddam’s disinformation’; ‘Soviet disinformation’), plus guidance on ‘How to identify misinformation’, […]
[…] of anyone else. The Research Centre is going to produce newsletters, clippings etc. Help Wanted Peter Jordon was convicted some years ago of being part of a conspiracy, with members of INLA (if memory serves), to assassinate a British Army officer. Whether he was guilty or not (or what he thought he was doing) […]
[…] SIS on them? Then the Sunday Telegraph had to apologise to the son of Colonel Gadafi whom it had accused in 1995 of being involved in a conspiracy to flood Iran with counterfeit money. This was a whiz-bang from those ingenious people at SIS, given to Con Coughlin then the Sunday Telegraph’s man in […]
[…] but by the Defense Secretary. In other words, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had to personally approve any action.(7) These items alone make the case of the 9-11 conspiracy theorists look plausible. On the World Socialist Web site, Patrick Martin concludes that the evidence suggests that the Bush administration was expecting al Qaeda to hijack […]
Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in the … Read more
[…] railways. Nice example of prudence, eh, Gordon? Where would we be without consultants? I’ve always liked NASA’s definition of a consultant/ expert: ‘An ordinary guy a long way from home.’ A good study of the period from the end of the war to privatisation is David Henshaw’s The Great Railway Conspiracy (Hawes: Leading Edge, 1991).
[…] 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 […]
[…] and beliefs of reporters and pundits mirrors that of the political and military establishment. The crucial propaganda function of the press was achieved not through any mass conspiracy to deceive the public but through ‘an ideology of news reporting that incorporates a set of routines, constraint, expectations – and myths.’ (p.200) Let a journalist […]
[…] the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald Sutherland in the most risible scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military […]
