[…] a dissenting voice trying to operate within mainstream American media. Yep, despite the conspiracy-laden history of American since 1963 — hell’s teeth, U.S. domestic political history is conspiracy — the accusation of ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still the main weapon of intellectual coercion among the Higher Media. Chasing the story the U.S. government least wanted […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for first time. Guardian 12th May Police threat to arrest people accommodating pickets Guardian 19th May Phone-tapping in Wales and Yorkshire. Guardian 7th April, 4th May […]
[…] self-righteousness of The Iron Triangle, ‘… all you’re left with is baseless innuendo… … this book should be exposed for what it is: a compilation of recycled conspiracy theories masquerading as investigative journalism.’ Given such a view it is hardly surprising that the Carlyle Group forbade its employees from talking to Briody. However, despite […]
[…] vast area of human political activity is consigned to a land marked ‘Here Be Monsters’. Anything in this land is a marvel, mere fable (or rather ‘ conspiracy theory’). Vast swathes of contemporary history and current state practice simply do not exist not, at least, until the files can be opened and academic […]
l Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b 1 1 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 […]
[…] assassin who worked with the Wolves right up to the shooting in St. Peter’s Square on May 13 1981. This still leaves the question of a larger conspiracy. The Wolves had strong links with the Italian and German far-right. In the early 1980s the Munich Beerfest and the Bologna Station massacre were just two […]
[…] Owen Oyston against Michael Murrin, these tapes were made available to Owen Oyston.’ An action for damages McGrath’s legal aid certificate specifies ‘an action for damages for conspiracy to injure’ against the chief constable of Lancashire, the chief constable of Merseyside, Lord Blaker, Sir Robert Atkins, Michael Murrin , William Harrison and Christopher More […]
[…] of Larry O’Hara will know, this is not quite the whole story. Later in the piece Mr Matthews wrote this: ‘Lobster has suggested there is a government conspiracy to disinform the UFO community about abductions (see issue 34) partly involving an anonymous “taxi driver” who phoned Mr Victorian recently ……Any such conspiracy, were it […]
[…] into trails leading from covert operations to political influence, and ultimately to drug airlines and mob-controlled banks, is the story that I first explored in The War Conspiracy and again (with respect to the Contras) in Cocaine Politics….essentially the same lobbies and their milieus, with oil prominent at the overt level and mob and […]
