[…] radiation was released. Russell is unusual in being willing to discuss UFOs, a subject which is still regarded as infra dig by most writers. Granted, like the JFK assassination research, the subject has attracted its far share of nutters over the years; but aren’t we supposed to be better than just walking away because […]
[…] at university. What he does not mention in that chapter is that between SDS and becoming a professional journalist he had been interested in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. On p. 207 he writes of ‘my first book, The Permanent Campaign, published in 1980’ – omitting his 1976 book on those assassinations, […]
[PDF file]: […] just an encumbrance. It’s the American model, of course; it’s what Tony Blair yearned for. Very striking. Tugwell and InfPol W ay back when…..there was a Canadian JFK researcher called Scott Van Wynsberghe who wrote a couple of pieces for Lobster. In number 27 I noted that Van Wynesberghe had graduated from writing for […]
[…] Mess that Nuland Made’31, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’32 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]
[…] Mess that Nuland Made’31, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’32 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]
[PDF file]: […] Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events and Peter Dale Scott draws interesting parallels between them and the JFK assassination. Ray McGovern is a retired senior CIA analyst who prepared Presidential Daily Briefs on intelligence. He was recently arrested for protesting against the appointment of […]
[…] the pin, but only fiction writers have come close to sticking the pin into the donkey’s behind. This was the argument being presented by James Douglass in JFK and The Unspeakable, which I reviewed here in Lobster, an effort to try to narrow what might be called suspects in the macro conspiracy. Work like […]
[PDF file]: […] cargo hold. I found much of this boring and some difficult to follow: it needs studying, note-taking. This made me feel the way I did as a JFK assassination beginner encountering the more arcane end of the research, such as the autopsy evidence. I skipped bits of it (Kerr provides handy summaries at the […]
[PDF file]: […] other academics in the field) that ‘conspiracy theory’ is an uncomplicated concept and anything so labelled can be assumed to be nonsense, is irrational and insulting (to JFK buffs in particular). However, with the spectacular crop of really dumb conspiracy theories which have emerged in recent years in the English-speaking world – QAnon etc. […]
[…] CIA attempts to destabilise New Zealand, through the exploration of the influence of the security and intelligence services on British politics; the role of conspiracy theories; CIA, JFK; the failure of Labour and the rise of NuLab; and out into some of the more arcane areas, notably UFOs and mind control. All the good […]
