[…] 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 […]
[…] 1940. It was very convenient for Churchill. The received view is that after Kent’s arrest Churchill/MI5 used the Kent-Captain Ramsay connection as evidence of a more organised conspiracy than really existed – a pretext – and the whole lot of them, Mosley’s group, Ramsay’s group, the remnants of The Link etc, were all rounded […]
[…] Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Bells of recognition may be ringing, for it was the IPS which was at the heart of one of the American Right’s conspiracy theories two decades ago, thinly disguised in the Robert Moss/Arnaud de Borchgrave novel about KGB penetration of America, The Spike. (20 Landau, I guess, is an […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Papacy to get diplomatic recognition for Croatia. The April mail-shot from The Keys of Peter — an eccentric but entertaining mixture of high Catholicism, anti-Masonic thought and conspiracy theories — contains one of the truly great rewrites of an author’s intentions. Of the Aarons and Loftus book about the collaboration between the Vatican and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Donald Neff’s Warriors for Jerusalem. Of these three only Green’s book seems to have been published in the UK. And the list ought to contain Anthony Pearson’s Conspiracy of Silence (Quartet 1978) Pearson hasn’t exactly been visible since then. Anybody know where he is and doing what? Active British Servicemen “British servicemen (are) active […]
[…] this before it was posted?’ *new* Thought for the day Someone called Tom (no surname) emailed me wondering about the current validity of Anthony Summers’ distinction between conspiracy theories and theories about conspiracies. Tom wonders if it wouldn’t make more sense to describe contemporary phenomena – such as QAnon – as conspiracy ideologies. There […]
[…] witnesses who saw things which didn’t fit the official verdict of ‘pilot error’ were marginalised or ignored and photographs were doctored. It looks like the standard formula: conspiracy and cover-up. The evidence assembled over the 50 years since can be construed to plausibly support a scenario in which the plane was brought down by […]
[PDF file]: […] witnesses who saw things which didn’t fit the official verdict of ‘pilot error’ were marginalised or ignored and photographs were doctored. It looks like the standard formula: conspiracy and cover-up. The evidence assembled over the 50 years since can be construed to plausibly support a scenario in which the plane was brought down by […]
