[…] his earlier career as a champion of human rights and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. […]
[PDF file]: […] reviving the ‘lawless spirit . . . of the 1960s’. They want ‘a revolution and they are so close they can taste it’. (p. 13) This great conspiracy has made use of ‘Marxist/Lenin doctrine: lie, divide and conquer’ to bring America down. Wallnau singles out the late historian Howard Zinn (who died in January […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
[PDF file]: […] its cause, leads Bloom to Gary Murray who mentions this in his 1993 book Enemies of the State. This, says Bloom, ‘became a bible a both for conspiracy theorists and those whose legitimate investigations suggested an actual series of conspiratorial situations’. (p. 35) It did? News to me. Murray’s book was full of fascinating […]
[PDF file]: […] a game of ‘what if?’, it explains a lot of things in one go, so it has the virtue of simplicity on its side. The ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ redux C urious that Monica Lewinsky reappeared in the news earlier this year, as the guest speaker at a TED talk, nearly 20 years after her […]
[PDF file]: […] refused to speak to any specific charges but suggested instead a nefarious anti-Semitic plot afoot within Citizen Lab, Israeli government apparatchiks joined the chorus singing cabal and conspiracy. “I can tell you that’s for sure that we see the fingerprints and footprints of anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic Financial Times 19 July 2019 1 2 […]
[PDF file]: […] with ‘a combined total of almost four thousand endnotes documenting sources’ (wow!). He continues, ‘my work has received more mainstream press coverage that most books documenting a conspiracy in JFK’s murder’.3 And so on, and so on. Now comes something quite remarkable. ‘Though The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination has the same high […]
[PDF file]: […] we know about the peculiar history of how pirate radio came about between 1961 and 1964, what it was intended to promote, the various propaganda programmes that the CIA did run, a statement of this type cannot quite be regarded as the silly conspiracy theory that many would have us believe. Page 32 Winter 2009/10
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with […]
[PDF file]: […] squashed it, but instead ‘he fuelled the smear’. (p. 130) Oborne was outraged at the way that the Mail on Sunday ‘had entered into something like a conspiracy with Downing Street to mislead its readers into thinking that three honourable British politicians were conniving with a foreign power’. Benn seems to have been accorded […]
