[…] was set for the 1980 election in which the Reagan campaign took over the old John Birch Society line and denounced the Trilateral Commission as a pro-Communist conspiracy. The rest is history (and may be the last we’ll ever get.) But there’s more to the story Sanders has to tell. He traces names and […]
[…] uranium is acknowledged as being a killer? Chemtrails, the aerosol spraying of grids of chemicals in the skies over America, which has been a part of the conspiracy theorists’ ‘paranoid agenda’ about America for three or four years, has been partially admitted. NASA has acknowledged spraying Trimethylaluminum. This is not the whole story but […]
[…] planes for covert missions, discussion of Oklahoma, an FBI agent provocateur, and an essay by Professor Carrie Foster of the Coalition on Political Assassinations Speakers Bureau, ‘ Conspiracy is as American as Apple pie’. Must be something in the water up there in the North-west. Good stuff, from PO Box 1327 Tualatin, Oregon 97062, […]
Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack London: Penguin, 2004, £12.99, p/b Henry McDonald’s highly readable recent book with Jim Cusack on the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is everything that other recent offerings on the subject were not. On the one hand, it avoids the kind of borderline homo-erotic sensationalism, in which the atrocities of self-serving … Read more
[…] other hand, the purges in this period were the result of the ‘paranoid tendencies’ of Stalin and ‘the Centre’ which constructed a vast but wholly imaginary American conspiracy round the activities of a fellow-travelling American Quaker, Noel Field, who had been in (innocent) contact with many leading figures in the Soviet bloc. (KGB: the […]
[…] whole thing together is entertaining but no more convincing than any other attempt at producing what Tony Frewin once referred to as the Unified Field Theory of Conspiracy. On Amazon.com’s reviews of this book there are many raves; but continue on down through the second page and you come to a very destructive review […]
[…] two of bibliography for those wishing to follow-up the stories in more depth. So if you haven’t investigated this area yet (maybe you thought it was just conspiracy theory?) and want an excellent introduction to it, I can thoroughly recommend this title. The current war on Afghanistan makes this an especially timely read. Not […]
[…] a South African Conservative MP, elected Honourary President of the renamed Western Goals Institute in February 1992, was arrested in April for his alleged part in a conspiracy to assassinate the ANC leader Chris Harni (Independent, 19 April, 1993) and later convicted of the murder. The Guardian (21 April) reported that Derby-Lewis ran an […]
[…] fact, it was meant to be satire, written not edited by Barbara Goodwin. It is thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it […]
[…] framed by an abstract Marxist theoretical superstructure that reads as if imposed on the facts from Mount Olympus. The book demanded not only familiarity with the deepest conspiracy analysis but also being up to speed on Marxist political economy (circuits of capital, regulation theory, etc.) – each of which is a very scarce accomplishment, […]
