Readers of the fly-leaf of Steve Dorril’s new book The Silent Conspiracy will notice that he gives his address as the contact point for Lobster. More accurately, I should have written for his Lobster. Yes, as I write this in early June the word is that Dorril going to produce another magazine called… Lobster. […]
[…] of Gemstone is demonstrably false, much else uncheckable, almost all of it profoundly implausible, the damned thing’s continued circulation these past 25 years is a depressing testament to the intellectual sloppiness of conspiracy buffs. (Which is pretty much what Jim Hougan says about Gemstone in a letter of his about it included in this collection.)
[…] preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.’ Ribbentrop (1) was also convicted of two further counts, war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the evidence […]
It now looks pretty certain to me that Kennedy’s assassination was the work of a local Texas conspiracy on behalf of, and with the knowledge of, the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Most of the extant evidence for this can be seen on the web site ‘The Men on the Sixth Floor'(1) which advertises […]
[…] the Summer 1991 issue of Covert Action, Bill Clinton was a footnote character; now he has become Oliver North’s partner, and a principal player in a CIA conspiracy. Compromised also claims that George Bush’s sons had a direct involvement with the Medellin cocaine cartel, and that the CIA engineered the Hasenfus crash as a […]
[…] intelligence operations which developed in Europe under the wing of the United States and that are now coalescing into the pan-European security agency of a new state-in-the-making. Conspiracy theorists who have managed to get past the idiocies of The Da Vinci Code will always point to Catholic involvement in the spiriting away of such […]
[…] to Chomsky, Cockburn and Hitchens – very much the critical insider. In keeping with this stance, however, Hersh has an almost visceral aversion to anything suggesting ‘ conspiracy’ – as evinced in his take on KAL 007 – and it is this bias which leads to an ultimately flawed, if highly readable work. Like […]
[…] essays you can follow Vidal on the final stage of his journey from being a kind of patrician, cynical, left-liberal out into parapolitics and even into American conspiracy theory culture. ‘Revisionist historian’ has come to mean people who want to deny the reality of Hitler’s attempt to exterminate the Jews in Europe. Before this […]
Operation Julie, a nation-wide police investigation of LSD production, was launched in 1976. Two years later, although some 60 members of the British ‘microdot conspiracy’ had been convicted, Detective Inspector Dick ‘Leapy’ Lee was dissatisfied. The operational commander of ‘Julie’, Lee was interested in the international connections of the network, but was blocked from […]
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 […]
