[PDF file]: l Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b 1 1 If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed […]
[PDF file]: Cryptoscatology Conspiracy Theory as Art Form Robert Guffey Walterville (OR): Trine Day, 2012, $19.95 (USA), p/b This is collection of the author’s essays on secret societies, the Masons and other esoterica, and various ways in which conspiracy theories are interacting with popular American culture. The book’s title is meaningless, as far as I can […]
[PDF file]: Mary’s Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in […]
[PDF file]: Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy? Andrew Rosthorn A sil Nadir was sentenced to 10 years in prison on 23 August 2012, for stealing £29 million from his company and from its North Cyprus subsidiary Uni-Pac. Soon after Justice Minister Chris Grayling rejected Nadir’s request for a transfer from a British to […]
[PDF file]: Brexit: cock-up or conspiracy? Bartholomew Steer After reviewing the Nancy MacLean book Democracy in Chains,1 it is apparent that the conspiratorial script of the radical right is the same across the world. – shrink the state/‘Starve the Beast’;2 – the introduction of constitutional barriers preventing democratic forces in one or more countries damaging multinational […]
[…] been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission’s findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as to the existence of some kind of conspiracy, and often they have implied that the Commission itself was involved. Presumably as a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission’s Report, a public […]
[…] just showed the Arabs the way out of the country into Pakistan”…..That Ali had entrusted suggested to us that the escapes were part of a much broader conspiracy to assist al Qaeda right through to the end. How high up did this conspiracy go? Certainly Ali’s failure to capture Osama could have been and […]
[…] 58, an activist and political researcher who was well-known in the Portland, Oregon area, died on February 13, 1998 from an aneurism in the brain. Corruption and conspiracy in high places is the name of the game, but Ace was on the case. His broad familiarity with the dark side of American history will […]
[…] done a couple of times on television, but much less comprehensively. Brown’s novelistic touches, however, frequently reduce the proceedings to the level of a Sydney Sheldon novel. Conspiracy Comics. Who Really Killed JFK? San Diego: Conspiracy Comics/Revolutionary Comics, March 1992. 32 pp. A comic book primer that asks the right questions, even if it […]
Brendan O’Malley and Ian Craig I.B. Tauris, London, 1999, £19.95 O’Malley and Craig are two senior British journalists and they have written a very interesting account of the post-WW2 machinations of America and Britain – initially Britain but, post Suez, chiefly America, as senior partner – to keep the people of Cyprus internally divided (Turks … Read more
