[…] Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a or 1 1 corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).2 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 […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.7 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.8 All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing economic […]
[PDF file]: […] far the most dynamic part of the 21 June Report is a lengthy editorial, covering a page and a half of A4 paper, denouncing the ‘Communist world conspiracy’. As one might expect, this diatribe is full of hot words and extravagant claims, and focuses upon the ‘peaceful coexistence’ policy promoted by Soviet premier Nikita […]
[PDF file]: […] the truth. But, as history has shown all too often, the desires of mass audiences can be deflected and manipulated by powerful interests. Take, for example, the conspiracy theory which holds that the psychedelic counter-culture of the 1960s was engineered by the CIA as part of a plot by a secret, global elite bent […]
[PDF file]: […] Jersey Mafia underbosses as Anthony (‘Fat Tony’) Salerno and Carmine Galante. Starting in the early 1960s, three federal trials of Cohn on charges of fraud, bribery, and conspiracy resulted in no conviction, but established his personal and business relations with various mobsters, including Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky.51 Like Garfinkle, Cohn was a financial […]
[PDF file]: […] to Intelligence Activities of the United States Senate. 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Book II (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976), pp. 25-31; Kathryn S. Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 69; Victor Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate (New York: […]
[…] 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/ […]
[…] 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]: […] ‘a Royal’ too: the Jacobite claimant to the UK throne. 13 Her husband, the Duke, died in 1930. He had owned and financed The Patriot, an anti-semitic conspiracy theory journal promoting the theories of Nesta Webster. 14 10 improperly. He simply moved with people in the know and reported what they said, with shrewd […]
[…] the parliamentary system. 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. Ahhah. I said, ‘No thanks: I do not want to appear with Aaronovitch. He doesn’t deserve the attention he gets.’ The researcher […]
