[…] 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 the whole book but the sections I have read contain […]
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the […]
[…] locate that fraternity produced some bizarre results during the 1985-87 period. Consulting periodical directories and other sources, I collected intriguing references to journals with the word ‘ conspiracy’ in their titles. Silly me, I actually thought someone using that word was both serious and devoted only to assassinations and the like. What followed was […]
Stephen Dorril Heinemann, London, 1993 It turns out that the ‘silent conspiracy’ of the title is a conspiracy which ‘has surrounded Britain’s secret state’ — a blindingly obvious tautology. Dorril has done as much as any other to lift the veil of secrecy from the British secret state, so it is somewhat disappointing to […]
[…] a translator of poetry. He is also a scholar of the post-war history of US involvement in S.E. Asia. (See, for example, his wonderful book The War Conspiracy (US 1972) and his essay in Volume 5 of the Gavel Edition of The Pentagon Papers) But he is probably best known for his writing on […]
[…] Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95 ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or […]
David Aaronovitch London: Jonathan Cape, £17.99, h/b In his introduction Aaronovitch tells us he became interested in conspiracy theories when someone he was working with introduced him to the they-didnt-go-to-the-moon theory; and this offended his sense of plausibility. Hes right: we all have a kind of plausibility threshold, beyond which a proposition about the […]
[…] of academic investigation that might have advanced the CIA’s study of torture.’(3)Such speculation has proved too much for other academics and Milgram’s reputation has been robustly defended.(4) Conspiracy theories Conspiracy theories, or rather the theory of conspiracy theories, seem to have given academics food for thought of late. Jeffrey M. Bale, who wrote on […]
[…] 2000. Transcript posted by Gary Stone to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – April 2000) New Zealand Press Association interview, ‘Richard Tomlinson talks about his ideas of a conspiracy to kill Princess Diana’, 31 August 1998 (Transcript – with comments posted on Sender, Berl & Sons website – ‘Final farewell analyses’ http://www.senderberl.com/farewell.html) Ibid. Mohamed Al […]
‘Let me through! I’m an academic conspiracy expert.’ Peter Knight London and New York: Routledge, 2000 p/b £16.99, h/b £60 Page one of this book or, rather more accurately, page ix, the first page of text, saw my heart sinking. There, above the preface, was a quote from Don DeLillo’s novel about Lee […]
