[…] This is quite a step for a journal called Covert Action, founded around the whistle-blowing of Philip Agee. For almost nothing is more redolent of crazy right-wing conspiracy theories than the debate about flouridation. So bravo to that. It’s an interesting essay, too, by the way. Griffiths argues, with considerable respectable-looking documentation, that the […]
[…] Verso, 2003, £17, h/b William Pepper has solved the King assassination. He hasn’t quite got enough to name the shooter but he has laid bare the conspiracy. It has taken him 20 years. Is there a comparable piece of research by an individual? I cannot think of one. Some of this material was […]
[…] subjects but not others. The section on JFK’s death for example, doesn’t even attempt a summary, merely running us through one of the many developments in the past decade. They are also curiously reluctant to dismiss rubbish as rubbish (e.g. the Gemstone File). Recommended only if you want a quick skim across American-oriented conspiracy theories.
[…] of their audio files, telephone conversations and situation room discussions, all recorded during the 9/11 attacks.(28) Is all this information too late? According to one study, ‘ conspiracy thinking is now a normal part of mainstream political conflict in the United States’ especially amongst members of less powerful groups who are ‘more likely to […]
[…] tricks to block Clinton’s election in 1992, and how allegations that the 1980 Presidential election was fixed were whitewashed and key documents hidden. Steamshovel Press http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma US conspiracy ‘zine. Gives contents pages of back issues plus sample article. Microwave News http://www.microwavenews.com/ ‘The worlds’ most authoritative source on EMF health risks’ Covers civil and military […]
[…] circles in the Soviet Union thought about the assassination. But the authors make almost no effort to distance themselves from the tripe about an oil depletion allowance conspiracy, nor do they stop to consider the implications of an intelligence service so hidebound by ideology that it cannot report objectively on the adversary’s camp.’ Verrrryyy […]
[…] San Francisco Bay. Today Horowitz has defected to the hard Right, along with his long-time colleague Peter Collier; and if you want to keep up with anti-CIA conspiracy journalism these days, it is helpful to have a subscription to The Spotlight, published by the right-wing Liberty Lobby. But you had better be prepared to […]
[…] Consulate. The successive changes mirror the shift in the Mexico City CIA Station’s view of Oswald, from a ‘phase-one’ position (Oswald was part of a Cuban Communist conspiracy) to a more standard ‘phase-two’ position (Oswald was a lone nut). From other sources we learn that the DFS itself, as well as the CIA Station, […]
[…] on the streets of Wellington somehow got into the hands of Conservative leader Muldoon. There was the “Think tank’ affair, in which the newspaper Truth concocted a conspiracy fantasy in which Labour was going to nationalise all the financial institutions of the country. There was the Freeman-Jays affair, in which Rohan Jays, a supposed […]
[…] everybody was impressed or won over by Baker’s arguments,(14) he did receive ‘…a standing ovation and nearly two minutes of solid applause.’ BBC2’s Dr David Kelly: the conspiracy files(16) included an interview with Norman Baker. Also featured in the programme was outspoken barrister Michael Shrimpton, whose flamboyant behaviour may not have won over many […]
