[…] sometimes in partnership with Noam Chomsky, the scourge of its conventional wisdom. In the early Reagan years we had an expose of the ‘Bulgarian plot to kill Pope John Paul II’ — a critical event in the winding up of the Second Cold War — and more recently The Terrorism Industry: the experts and […]
[…] disinformation. The U.S. ran the ‘KGB terror network’ story, through Clare Sterling, with help from the Israelis, messers Crozier and Moss and others, and then the KGB-shot-the- Pope story. Against that the Soviet Union ran the story (with several variants) that AIDS was a U.S. biological warfare experiment gone wrong. A minor spin-off from […]
[…] as the misogynistic, homophobic and bigoted religious are over-represented. Unchecked immigration floods the country with predominantly Roman Catholic young, just as, to curry favour with Islam, the pope reinserts hatred of ‘the Jews’ into the third Station of the Cross at Easter. The prime minister presents himself with a Koran under his arm, collapsing […]
[…] published in Patterson, New Jersey, was up to issue 21 when I approached it, and its list of back issues featured these gems: ‘Did Masons kill JFK, Pope John Paul 1, Princess Grace?’ (no. 4) and ‘Discover how UFO beliefs are being manipulated to create social change — and how this ties into the […]
[…] remains a virtual network linking FOI movements globally and an ‘institutional memory’ for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Notes See for example: Justin Pope, ‘9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving’, Associated Press Online 7 August 2006; Richard Roeper, ‘Academics fill grassy knoll spot abandoned by Oliver Stone’, Chicago Sun Times 8 August […]
[…] with distinctive SS tattoo marks. The Catholic Church did all it could to save what it called these “poor refugees’: Bishop Ivan Bucko, with help from the Pope, acted on their behalf in much the same way as Father Dragonovic did with the Croatian Ustashi. After “basking in the sun’ in Italy for two […]
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
[…] von Papen in ‘the late summer of 1942’ asking if he could broker a peace between Britain, Germany and the US (but, note, not the Soviet Union). Pope Pius XII himself arranged meetings, the objectives of which would have been the removal of Hitler, the disbanding of the SS, a centre-right government in Germany, […]
[…] halt the persecutions and exterminations in Nazi-occupied Europe. In his book Who Is My Liege? Young gives an authoritative account of this approach through Monsignor Montini, later Pope Paul VI, which is strangely ignored in recent lengthy and inaccurate publications on this controversial topic. For his work in Rome Young was awarded an MBE, […]
[…] latter stages of the war. These included Mafia businessmen, Christian Democratic politicians and trade union leaders, as well as sources in the Church hierarchy (including the future Pope Paul VI, then Cardinal Montini) a loose coalition which held together throughout much of the post-war era not just in Italy but in many countries […]
