[…] fascinating. The book is also worth reading as a powerful moral indictment of American capitalism and foreign policy more generally. On ‘9/11’ it even hints at a conspiracy. (The administration may have known it was coming but let it happen to give them the excuse to attack Iraq. It was all part of the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] will have to go on the shopping list too for that reason alone. I wish I could be more positive about the Encyclopedia. It is firmly pro- conspiracy where the Investigation is open-minded (you decide, it says) and Jane Rusconi certainly knows her way about this neck of the woods – she was responsible […]
[…] at editing and designing the thing. So, read the review in Lobster 31, basically. To which I would add this: Stich has collected together many of the conspiracy theories, bits of research and allegations on the U.S. political and intelligence fringe since the arrival Ronald Reagan. Some of these fragments are more convincing than […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] from him so? Copsey’s treatment of the BNPC18 struggle describes conflict but does not ideologically explain it and ends weakly by advancing a version of the Searchlight conspiracy theory (pp. 65-68), that C-18’s Charlie Sargent was a Special Branch asset. () Tyndall, however, is yesterday’s man, and the ideology of the BNP under Nick […]
[…] of the intelligence empire which escape democratic control and constitutional legality. Their method of work is one of indirection, collusion and deceit. It is a world of conspiracy. Malcolm Muggeridge, himself in wartime MI6, noted that secrecy to MI6 ‘is as essential … as vestments and incense to a mass, or darkness to a […]
[…] is with individual monitoring.’ They rather miss the whole point. At least some of their colleagues are more honest when they direct their ire at the Anglo-American conspiracy to undermine honest, continental business values. They know where their interests lie. For NSA buffs there is much in Bamford’s book to recommend it, but it […]
