The Syndicate: The story of the coming World Government
Nicholas Hagger
New Alresford (Hampshire), John Hunt Publishing, 2004, pb, £11.99
Another massive reworking of the basic elements of the post-WW2 American-oriented global conspiracy theory: Rothschild, Quigley, Fabians, CFR, Bilderberg, Masons etc. Hagger makes much of Bilderberg (perhaps simply because there is so much material to use) and – his particular contribution to the genre – much of global corporations. Although he has done this as well any other version I have seen (which isn’t saying a great deal), and is free from the Jewish obsession, it is still transparently false. There is no ‘syndicate’, no matter how loosely you define it – and his definition is very loose indeed. And how long are authors going to continue taking seriously John Coleman (he of the ‘Committee of 300’ nonsense, cited extensively here), and his description of himself as a former MI6 officer?