[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 a Thomas Pynchon novel. Butman and Sprinkle write in their Introduction, ‘What we, the authors, have done is research dozens and dozens of books on the conspiracy, plot , murder and evident cover-up. We then picked five of what we felt were the most informative and interesting of those books and reviewed them […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Thinking about the Falklands Paul Johnson recently sneered in The Times at the ‘ conspiracy theories’ about the Falklands War held by the likes of Tam Dalyell MP. Reading this, what struck me was just how few conspiracy theories about that war have emerged in the past 3 years. So, here are a couple. […]
[…] 3 editors of Green Anarchist magazine (Saxon Wood, Steve Booth and Noel Molland), were convicted and sentenced to 3 years in jail after being found guilty of conspiracy to incite ‘persons unknown’ to commit criminal damage, for reporting details of environmental and animal rights direct actions. Public Interest Immunity Certificates were used to suppress […]
Books The Flight of KAL 007: evidence of conspiracy R. B. Cutler Cutler is the editor/producer of the Grassy Knoll Gazette, one of the JFK assassination journals. Over the years he has produced a great many books/pamphlets on the case. This is a 40 page pamphlet full of Cutler’s beautiful drawings and maps which […]
