[…] and King magisterially, ‘to substantiate this view, and all the available accounts tell against it. As so often, the cock-up theory seems infinitely more plausible than the conspiracy theory.’ At the end of their 23 detailed chapters, cock-up – ‘a study in failure’ – is their considered conclusion. Jenkins, now Chancellor of Oxford University, […]
[…] the Communist Chinese and whom they described as the first casualty of the Cold War. The Birchers claimed that America was being undermined by a secret communist conspiracy. They stood for resistance to collectivism and for the freedom of the individual. Writing in 1970 the founder of the society, Robert Welsh, declared that ‘we […]
[…] 1980s to search for the US personnel believed by some on the American right to be still alive in Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos. Gritz has now turned himself into a conspiracy theorist, producing magazines, books, pamphlets, audio and video tapes from his Center for Action, Box 472, HCR 31, Sandy Valley, NEV 89019, USA. Gritz covers the […]
[…] necessity, to charges under the OSA 1989. Times law report http://cryptome.org/hmg-v-shayler3.htm Free Samar and Jawad http://www.freesaj.org.uk Samar Alami and Jawad Botmeh were convicted in Dec 1996 of conspiracy in relation to the 1994 London bombings of the Israeli Embassy and Balfour House and both were sentenced to 20 years. ‘Freedom and Justice for Samar […]
[…] then Chairman of the Security Commission’. Murray leaves this extraordinary episode thus: What happened from that point on is unknown but what is certain is that the conspiracy against Gerry Gable was brought to an abrupt halt’. Armed bodyguards, arranged by Special Branch to protect the editor of an anti-fascist magazine, after a telephone […]
[…] of what the Service did. In part, this was to compensate for the image that had prevailed before. It was being portrayed as if it were run by fascist swine, which wasn’t the case.’ Much of this prevailing imagery, was, she believes, put about in the 1980s by ‘communist sympathisers posing as conspiracy theorists’. Huh?
[…] Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department […]
[…] much, if any, major media exposure; but ‘what’s really happening’ is a dumb slogan. It is an interesting group: from Robert Sterling and Jonathan Vankin on the conspiracy theory-for-the-hell-of-it wing to Howard Zinn via William Blum, to the famous critic of psychiatry, Thomas Szasz, critics of globalisation Noreena Hertz and Greg Palast – Palast […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Psy-Op. These documents are on the Web at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9923/MJ12.html/ What Jack told Marilyn? I’d hate to be thought to be encouraging the crazier end of the UFO conspiracy world but among the mountains of documents in Armen Victorian’s possession is a purported 1962 CIA document reporting the results of phone-taps of conversations between the […]
