[…] nefarious Zionist influence in offering them their promised land in Palestine. The way this story is now told plays on the myth of an all-powerful secret Jewish conspiracy behind the scenes. Well, there was a conspiracy of sorts but it was not a Jewish one, and the ringleaders were British. It is important to […]
[…] disturbed by Hilda, and that as a consequence of tackling her intruder, she was abducted from her home, stabbed and left to die of hyperthermia. Good old conspiracy theory The other studies opt for one of two ‘conspiracy theories’. The first links the Murrell death to the Falklands War, and in particular the Belgrano […]
[…] were the ‘radical right’ in America, for whom Tragedy and Hope became a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy none the less. But apart from them, the only […]
[…] researchers have followed this advice. For many it is practically axiomatic that complicity in the cover-up following JFK’s shooting implies complicity in, or knowledge of, the murder conspiracy. From the cover-up the trail can be followed back to the crime. But practically the entire U.S. establishment took part in the cover-up: national and local […]
[…] the best by a former After Dark guest but also not willing to authenticate claims I could not substantiate, I reached for another of our laws of conspiracy: Rule D: The journey away from truth. We know the secret world has biases towards certain personality traits and it is not always the case that […]
[…] Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) saying it was unfairly edit-ed, used without his consent and made him appear to be ‘a “crank” and conspiracy theorist.’(3) Equally perturbed but using […]
The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And […]
[…] were the ‘radical right’ in America for whom Tragedy and Hope became a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy nonetheless. But apart from them, the only people who […]
[…] that would be enough for many on the US Left to refuse to read him – or simply discount his views. This has happened to the Chicago conspiracy researcher Sherman Skolnick. I have read little of Skolnick’s work, and what I have read did not impress. But Skolnick writes for The Spotlight. Cue contamination […]
A current example of a conspiracy theory is the continuing attempt to paint Roger Hollis as a member of the so-called ‘Ring of Five’. There is, it should be said, not a shred of evidence that Hollis ever passed a single piece of information to the Soviets, nor that he had any contacts with […]
