[…] him wrong. In many ways, James Douglass has produced a book on the Kennedy assassination which ought to serve as a corrective for those not interested in conspiracy theory. It ought to be set against the Posners and Bugliosis who have had mainstream attention lavished on their lawyerly fabrications. It’s one of the most […]
[…] exposition is Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) There is a discussion of that literature in Niall Ferguson’s review essay, ‘Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory’, in Twentieth Century British History, vol. 4, 1993. The version which first struck me was Frank Longstreth’s essay ‘The City, Industry and the State’, in […]
[…] the Commission on Preservation and Access which recommended scanning and discarding, was on Xerox’s advisory panel at the time. It is difficult, nevertheless, to discern an actual conspiracy at work in the story, though this may in part be owing to the book’s lack of a clear chronological structure. Rather, one gains the impression […]
[…] many ambushes carried out by the SAS and other special units in Northern Ireland (and Gibralter). Without a state of war, setting an ambush is just a conspiracy to murder. No declaration of war means killings are legally problematic unless certain special circumstances pertain. Hence, finally, the endless, laughable courtroom accounts — usually at […]
[…] and these characters? Despite fresh evidence (from the membership list) Griffiths, ultimately, comes to the same conclusion as Herbert Morrison in 1941 that Ramsay was an unstable conspiracy theorist, many of his followers were cranks, and many of those on the Right Club membership list may not even have known they were on it. […]
[…] of MI5. Some senior members of SOE also came from Slaughter & May. Cf Lobster Who’s Who. Barchard, p. 177 Brendon O’Malley and Ian Craig, The Cyprus Conspiracy, (London: IB Tauris, 1999) Ibid. This book was reviewed in Lobster 38 The sensitivity of the issue may be judged by the events surrounding the publication […]
[…] Ascott House, de Rothschild’s home in Buckinghamshire, for a seated banquet for 100’. Just imagine how this Clinton-Mandelson-Rothschild link is going to be treated by certain American conspiracy theorists! Lobbying news The Labour government’s bizarre decision to follow America down the casinos-are-good-for-you route (See Lobster 43 p. 33) was the result of lobbying by […]
[…] and though involved in the CIA’s investigation of the assassination, has refused to comment on the Meyer episode. (See Washington Post February 23rd 1976. Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy (US 1977). Judith Exner had been introduced to JFK by friend Frank Sinatra, and had an affair with him through 1961 and ’62. She also knew […]
[…] Larry O’Hara is the subject of two of the next three paragraphs. Just for a second to look for a quasi-rational defence for what is virtually a conspiracy to get Larry O’Hara assaulted – or worse – Searchlight could be said to have this key position: Nobody is allowed to talk to fascists; those […]
[…] p. 204. See for example, Glenn Greenwald’s comprehensive debunking of the ‘lone nut’ theory with regard to scientist Bruce Irvins Greenwald highlights proof positive of a media-establishment conspiracy surrounding the original anthrax story in the form of ABC’s four or five ‘separate well placed sources’. ‘Benazir to give IAEA access to A.Q. Khan’, Anwar […]
