[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] publisher e-mailed me recently: ‘There is further an enormous reluctance among publishers to stick their necks out in areas like this. After all, if true, the 9-11 conspiracy renders the last 3 years of history into a nightmarish farce. Consciously or not publishers exist inside the dom-inant narratives of their culture. Even if someone […]
[…] little guy vs. Big Brother), because hackers are motivated more by malicious amusement than by genuine self-defense. More hype comes from a bizarre intersection of cyberspace with conspiracy theory: the incredible PROMIS software by Inslaw, Inc. For months I was reading accounts of how this software was revolutionary, and could track everything about everyone. […]
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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 […]
[…] Graduate Theological Union, 1980). Minna, Rosario — ‘Il Terrorismo di Destra’, in Della Porta (ed.). Mintz, Frank P. — The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy and Culture, (Westport CT, Greenwood, 1985). Moos, Felix — ‘Leadership and Organization in the Olive Tree Movement’, in TRASKB 43 (1967). Morris, Ivan I. — Nationalism […]
[…] a period of time, became the means whereby the loyalist paramilitaries were brought to play their part in the British counter-insurgency strategy. There was, Davies argues, a conspiracy between Military Intelligence and the Ulster Defence Association which carried the battle on the streets to the very heart of the Republican movement; and the campaign […]
[…] editor. For contact details click here. Books by Robin Ramsay Politics and Paranoia (Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay Interviews […]
[…] the Inquisition. Yates gives evidence of links between such groups as the Rosicrucians and ‘ Scottish Rite’ Freemasonry. (3) Lincoln and co.’s selling of the idea of conspiracy to create a new world monarchy is so unconvincing that you get the impression that they are more interested in the cheap thrills market. Inextricably tied […]
