Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99 I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets … Read more
Mel Gibson’s movie Throughout the ages, the Vatican’s iconic depiction of the Crucifixion has been an example of one of PR’s most effective ‘tactics’: the freeze-framing and subsequent promotion of a single event, to dictate perception, itself a marketing tactic. (The same ‘mind control’ is apparent in marketing today, when, say, a ‘life-style’ freeze-frame is … Read more
[…] also having good connections with the leadership of eastern European left and Communist parties. Much early military assistance for Israel, in the 1940s, came from Czechoslovakia. The murder of Bernadotte was organised by a small group that included Yitzhak Shamir, later Prime Minister of Israel 1983-1984 and 1986-1992. It took place during a critical […]
[…] second we must retain a sense of proportion. It condemned Scotland Yard for using alarmist language (‘even if true’ ) that the plot would have caused ‘mass murder on an unimaginable scale’. It is the job of journalists and terrorists to engage in hyperbole (it said), not the police. This pragmatic response will not […]
‘Modernism is political’. Okay, it’s not the snappiest start to an article I know, but it gets to the bottom of the phenomenon that is LM, formerly Living Marxism, currently Last Magazine. Confused? Yes they are, but not as confused as the liberal intelligentsia who have been trying to decode what LM means for the … Read more
[…] he can do a lot of damage.’ (47) This last statement is particuarly evocative. In 1984 a violent neo-Nazi group called The Order — responsible for the murder of talk show host Alan Berg — established contact with two government scientists engaged in clandestine research to project chemical imbalances and render targeted individuals docile […]
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the lay … Read more
[…] use green ink myself, and I’m fairly sceptical about most of the areas I’ve just mentioned although I never did understand what was so loonish about the murder of Hilda Murrell. Having said that, I don’t believe it’s possible to draw a firm line between conspiracy theory and parapolitics. According to the ‘Louie, Louie’ […]
[…] dead but stinking.) Such definitions of “terrorism” that are attempted merely produce problems. The version offered by the editor (p9) is: “terrorism is the deliberate and systematic murder maiming and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends.” Which just about covers the whole of American foreign policy since the late 19th […]
[…] only 84 pages. The content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: Gehlen, Roswell, Operation Paperclip, the murder of Gandhi; and Watergate, Littlejohn, Kincora, Allende; and AIDS conspiracy, Iran-Contra conspiracy, Hilda Murrel, Get Scargill, assassination of Mrs Ghandi. And so on. I haven’t read […]
