[…] have had the vision to understand that “They’ll come for us next.” In other words, the danger is that what begins with perhaps defensible suppression of loony conspiracy theorists on the right will eventually spread to 2 3 On Haley see the Texas Monthly article cited in note 4 above and . or https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/73/ […]
[PDF file]: […] own, an attempt made all the more grotesque by their religiosity. A book published in 2011, Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True, by the American right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Dice (600,000 Twitter followers and over 1.5 million YouTube subscribers) is a good example of the phenomenon. He was considered important enough to be […]
[PDF file]: […] Heathfield’s then wife, the late Betty Heathfield, had been a member of the CPGB; it wasn’t hard for the secret state to present this as a communist conspiracy. In charge of MI5’s operation against the NUM, then the head of its F2 branch, Stella Rimington, wrote later: ‘The 1984 miners’ strike was supported by […]
[PDF file]: […] elsewhere in Europe. David Aaronovitch I was contacted by BBC’s ‘The Daily Politics’: would I like to appear with David Aaronovitch? Why me? I would be defending conspiracy theories, the researcher suggested. Ah-hah. I said, ‘No thanks: I do not want to appear with Aaronovitch. He doesn’t deserve the attention he gets.’ The researcher […]
[PDF file]: […] chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ shades into ‘overarching conspiracy’ was not specified, but enough was revealed about the […]
[PDF file]: […] there isn’t enough evidence to believe or disbelieve much of it; but let us consider it. The most complete account in English by Estes of the assassination conspiracy is in his 2005 book, Billie Sol Estes: a Texas Legend.3 This book appeared after a French book about Estes, Le Dernier Temoin (The Last Witness) […]
[…] recently, is the Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).25 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
[PDF file]: […] both reinforces and appeals to the supercilious anti-populism of the comfortable classes. Slick, cultish, pseudo-left website Spiked exemplifies this attitude.3 The Spiked orthodoxy finds ‘moral panics’, ‘ conspiracy theories’ and ‘anti-science attitudes’ wherever criticism of the rich and powerful is voiced. Most of the claque of regular Spiked contributors have no credentials beyond the […]
[PDF file]: […] November 22, 1963 remain unknown. 26 10 Still . . . On The Atlantic site there is an essay by Brian Klass on the current popularity of conspiracy theories in America, ‘Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy’.27 It is illustrated with this image. Kennedy assassination research next to Jewish space lasers . . . It is […]
[…] account of Oswald at . 3 material linking Oswald to US intelligence agencies; and it is possible that they dismiss all that kind of information as ‘ conspiracy theories’ not worth their attention and are simply unaware of it. Even if they are familiar with it, Shenon is a former New York Times journalist […]
