Kenn Thomas Illuminet Press, Lilburn, GA 30048 USA, 1999, $14.95 www.illuminetpress.com The Crisman in the book’s title is a man called Fred Lee Crisman who is one of only two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is … Read more
[…] people to walk through and see the career prospects ahead – if they follow the general line. Grooves of academe Here come the academics, homing in on conspiracy theories. As well as the Peter Knight book reviewed in this issue by Tony Frewin, we have had recently his collection Conspiracy Nation:the politics of paranoia […]
[…] the possibility of a confluence of interest and activity among any, or all, of the above factions. Or maybe these events are unconnected, and there is no conspiracy at all. Since leaving office, Carlos Salinas de Gortari has been treated by the American and European press as a homeless, tragi-comic figure, sending mad faxes […]
[…] 33 are tremendously useful in understanding the recent political changes in the UK, and also in understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion of the U.S. mall culture. The U.S. […]
[…] what we all know already – the Zinoviev letter was a fake, passed to the Daily Mail by Tory-supporting intelligence officers – combined with the classic ‘no conspiracy’ line. In this case, since the letter is an acknowledged forgery, and there was a conspiracy, there are two specious cop-outs. Not only is there ‘no […]
[…] Criticism from this kind of quarter is worse than water off a duck’s back. It toughens the feathers, confirms the poor Kansans in their prejudices. A vast conspiracy One of those prejudices is that there is a vast conspiracy at work against them, composed of those self-same liberals, backed by dark agencies unknown. This […]
[…] operating since the early 1960s right through to the present day have had a surprising amount of publicity in Britain considering that this is the kind of conspiracy theorising which is normally anathema to our straight media. It must help being a radical Christian! The central document in their allegations is The Affidavit of […]
[…] we found ourselves investigating and trying to expose in the major media far right involvement in the Green and New Age movements. This included links to anti-semitic conspiracy theorists, Holocaust revisionists, the British Israelite and Christian Identity Movements, the US militias and so on. David Icke, the magazine Nexus and the London-based magazine Rainbow […]
[…] confront was the use of black propaganda by the terrorists as well as the intelligence agencies, and how propaganda led to the deliberate or accidental creation of conspiracy theories. Much of the evidence in print or by word of mouth pointed to the involvement of British intelligence groupings in political murder and the manipulation […]
[…] the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from the Fortean Times, conversations between some of the US’s leading purveyors and students of conspiracy theories. Mark Pilkington of FT introduces the conversation with the comment that ‘Adrift amongst seas of information and disinformation, claim and counter-claim, a detached, more fortean […]
