[…] Phillips provides the first detailed examination of which I am aware of the various dock strikes during the period. Phillips concludes that the various charges of ‘communist conspiracy’ made by members of the government and senior trade union officials were spurious, and probably known to be spurious at the time.(1) The one oddity about […]
[…] Bush (and Governor Howard Dean) acknowledged members of Skull and Bones, it is getting hard even for an establishment paper like the Post to completely dismiss the conspiracy buffs. In the pursuit of Skull and Bones, Millegan’s collection of essays and reprints of articles is a major addition to the published information on the […]
[…] of books about Italian politics recently, and almost none of them willing to answer the question “Why Italy?” Why is Italy’s political culture so firmly based on conspiracy and secrecy? A part of that answer must be Italy’s role as the premier European site of the conflict between indigenous left-wing forces and NATO, the […]
[…] own satisfaction, if not to that of others, and no doubt to the mystification of many more), Wrone moves on to prove that the Z-film records a conspiracy. In this, we have come full circle, back to the early WCR critics who used the Z-film as their ‘exhibit A’. Wrone is pretty good on […]
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter […]
[…] of the coup which appeared in the June issue of a privately circulated newsletter from New Zealand, “Wellington Confidential”. Both stories were filled with unsupported allegations, innuendo, conspiracy and inaccuracy. “Wellington Confidential” attempts to model itself on a U.S. publication “Covert Action Information Bulletin” which claims to reveal U.S. intelligence activity, but often replays […]
[…] Opportunity. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1995. 342 pps. Illustrated, index. After all these years Moldea now says Sirhan Sirhan acted alone and there was no conspiracy, and those bullet holes in the doorway weren’t bullet holes after all. I wish I could believe him. PEPPER, William F. Orders to Kill: The Truth […]
[…] be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘ conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a significant step for the major media of America; and only fifty-five years after the group’s inception. The Times piece adopts a more […]
[…] 1990 such a document would have been about Soviet disinformation campaigns; and this one begins with some well known examples of Soviet disinformation before proceeding to attack conspiracy theories. It names only three current sources of conspiracy theories: the two websites, Rense.com and Conspiracy Planet, and ‘Australian private investigator Joe Vialls, who died in […]
[…] within a fortnight had over 2 Mbs of data – more than could be comfortably filed, let alone digested. And it has continued growing since. ‘9-11 + conspiracy’ on Google will now produce getting on for 6 million hits. By comparison, the critical information in the JFK case appeared in dribs and drabs over […]
