The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

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[PDF file]: […] squashed it, but instead ‘he fuelled the smear’. (p. 130) Oborne was outraged at the way that the Mail on Sunday ‘had entered into something like a conspiracy with Downing Street to mislead its readers into thinking that three honourable British politicians were conniving with a foreign power’. Benn seems to have been accorded […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

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[PDF file]: […] nose appear too large and his head appears too small. On the other hand, from a distance the deception might work. But unless we posit an elaborate conspiracy by Peck and LBJ to establish LBJ’s ignorance of his ‘cousin’s’ existence, it appears that Estes’ account of the Peck ‘cousin’ standing-in for LBJ is untrue. […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

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[PDF file]: […] cricketer Basil D’Oliveira, confirming with solid evidence the long-held suspicions of anti-apartheid campaigners about the malign roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

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[PDF file]: […] Gordon Maclendon’s Wiki entry includes this: ‘Jack Ruby was both a listener and admirer of McLendon and known to the staff of the station, including Gordon McLendon. Conspiracy theorists Warren Hinckle and William Turner (in their book Deadly Secrets) and Peter Dale Scott have alleged that McLendon played a peripheral role in the John […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

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[PDF file]: […] Studies at Edinburgh University and expert on British Intelligence, agreed the files prove MI5 was not involved with Hess. “If we boil it down very simply, the conspiracy theory is that there was a plot by British intelligence deliberately to lure Rudolf Hess to Britain to engage in peace negotiations in the spring of […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

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[PDF file]: […] quite apart from anything else – an opportunist assertion of US power in general. In closing remarks, Harvey lambasts ‘….what amounts to academic groupthink – like other conspiracy theories, neoconism develops an entire narrative around a simplistic first image (leadership driven) theory6 about the Machiavellian brilliance and 6 Frank Harvey is here assuming the […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

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[PDF file]: […] The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State, written by William Rees-Mogg, former editor of The Times, with US alt-right conspiracy theorist James Dale Davison. 7 Bilderberg, a gathering of the great, good and interesting (provided they are wealthy), appear to have invited Thiel to join prior […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] the SIS view of Russian influence on the Scottish and Brexit campaigns through his character? There is not enough evidence to say this, so this remains a conspiracy theory at this stage – but interesting.8 or 5 6 The evidence is examined by Jon Danzig at . See also Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos […]

Assange again

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[PDF file]: […] sure that chauvinistic Tories and crusty old English lawyers simply resent being told off by the UN. Censorship I’m also starting to take some of the ‘ conspiracy theories’ surrounding this case seriously. That worries me. I’ve always resisted this way of thinking, possibly naively. (It can be 2 See entries for 11 November […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] no information on Lansdale’s whereabouts that day. ChatGPT can find nothing. E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA officer who talked about the CIA’s role in the assassination conspiracy when he was old and ill, did not See, for example, or . 9 10 Prouty discusses this in an audio tape at . Start around […]

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