[…] 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 […]
[…] for American Studies 2002 Annual Postgraduate Conference, this draws on newly available archival evidence to document the origins of the Bilderberg Group. It also considers the various conspiracy theories which have attached themselves to the Group. Is it a CIA plot to undermine socialism or a socialist conspiracy to destroy the US’s capitalist, democratic […]
Impossible Knowledge Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth Todor Hristov London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £45 (UK), h/b The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish” Katharina Thalmann London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £29.99 (UK), p/b Robin Ramsay Todor Hristov alerted this reader in his short […]
[PDF file]: Conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts THEY KNEW How a Culture of Conspiracy keeps America Complacent Sarah Kendzior New York: Flatiron Books 2022 John Newsinger Sarah Kendzior is one of the most interesting commentators writing about contemporary America. Her two previous books, The View from Flyover Country (2018) and Hiding in Plain Sight (2020), […]
[PDF file]: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b Robin Ramsay If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed in her […]
[PDF file]: […] a common line. And regardless of which party is in power in Washington, their luminaries have flocked to Bilderberg meetings in equal numbers: so if there’s a conspiracy going on here at all it is merely to continue to expand the set of loosely defined values which keep these folk in thrall – capitalism […]
The Bilderberg Conspiracy: Inside the world’s most powerful secret society H. Paul Jeffers New York: Citadel Press, 2009, $14.95 (US), p/b Colin Challen I feel cheated. Once again, a publisher’s desire for an eyecatching title has led to an anticlimax. Jeffers goes out of his way to provide a balanced judgement on the Bilderberg […]
[PDF file]: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up – A New Investigation Tim Tate and Brad Johnson London: Thistle Publishing, 2018, £11.99 (p/b) Robin Ramsay The assassination of RFK has received infinitely less attention than that of his brother. This isn’t surprising as he wasn’t the president. He was just a politician […]
[PDF file]: The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy Graeme MacQueen Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2014, $19.95, £12.99 ISBN 978-0-9860731-2-0 Anyone remember the American anthrax scare of 2001? I’d pretty much forgotten about it until I read author Graeme MacQueen who says that it was a key part of the 9/11 events that took […]
[PDF file]: Without Smoking Gun: Was the Death of Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up Conspiracy? Kent Heiner Trine Day, 2004, p/b, £16 (approximation from current dollar value) A catchy title for a book this is not, although given that Lt. Cmdr. Pitzer is such an obscure figure you can hardly fault […]
