[…] the war from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and thus ensure that the President got a mandate from Congress for the attack on Iraq. The moment of conspiracy In Britain, at the 11th hour very senior MI6 and Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that […]
[…] power from the Tories, Oyston was in jail, serving a six year sentence for the rape and indecent assault of a young woman. The secrets of the conspiracy that destroyed Oyston’s business and political career now lie in a huge archive gathered during the twenty years in which he was tormented by secret enemies, […]
[…] Sirhan’s gun could contain only 8 rounds.(1) The best single article on the assassination of Martin Luther King I know is Jim Douglass, ‘The Martin Luther King conspiracy exposed in Memphis’.(2) This article is based round the successful (but almost entirely unreported) 1999 unlawful death civil suit brought by the King family against Lloyd […]
[…] of Spooks and Secret Agenda), who writes that ‘the parapolitical underground should consider whether or not it matters that they’ve got it right or wrong. If any conspiracy theory will do, then the Steamshovel Press should be regarded as a literary enterprise — like Fate or Granta. If, on the other hand, it seems […]
[…] be said that I am hardly the first to suggest that the Jonestown massacre was the outcome of someone’s secret machinations. The affair is inherently mysterious, and conspiracy theories abound – the most prominent among them that ‘Jonestown’ was a CIA mind-control experiment. The view has been put forward in a number of venues. […]
[…] their confidential documents he passed to Konkret in 1982. Published in Spiegel at the time and reproduced in Lobster 17, the documents give external confirmation of the conspiracy to effect a change of government in Britain, and reveal the European and world-wide links in this conspiracy through the Pinay Circle. The Pinay Circle (also […]
[…] Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/mlk/part1.htm (June 2000) This report, resulting from a DoJ investigation, rejects allegations of a conspiracy surrounding James Earl Ray and MLK’s assassination, and recommends no further federal investigation related to the assassination unless and until reliable substantiating facts are presented. Vietnam […]
Neil Nixon Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2002; £3.99 Pocket Essentials are the publishers who have had the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However […]
[…] UK (Tel: 0482 447558) ISSN: 0964-0436Contributors to this Issue Larry O’Hara is completing a PhD on British fascism Scott Van Wynsberghe has written widely on the Kennedy conspiracy, notably in The Third Decade. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales in Cardiff John Booth is a free-lance journalist living in London Previous […]
[…] collection with a survey of research developing in these fields now that the Cold War is over, and includes his now customary warning of the dangers of conspiracy theorising – citing James Angleton as an example of what can happen: ‘Once contracted, conspiracy theory is an incurable condition.’ As usual, the irony of that […]
