Nicola Calipari’s death If the tragic death of ‘Nicola Calipari’, the international oper-ations chief of Italy’s military intelligence service, in March 2005, was, as has been alleged, a deliberate act rather than misadventure, it is one of the most recent examples of extreme PR ‘message management’ I can think of. ([1]) ‘Public relations’ is about … Read more
[…] the Guardian, through its editor, Rusbridger, kept from them a letter stating that they were under investigation themselves and were facing a possible prosecution charging them with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Rusbridger’s version is that the letter was overlooked during a holiday period. Anyway, the Guardian pulled them off the story […]
[…] Larry O’Hara is the subject of two of the next three paragraphs. Just for a second to look for a quasi-rational defence for what is virtually a conspiracy to get Larry O’Hara assaulted – or worse – Searchlight could be said to have this key position: Nobody is allowed to talk to fascists; those […]
[…] Pine Gap, MJ-12, the mafia – even the Illuminati – all the signs to me of a beginner floundering around in the wonderful wacky world of American conspiracy theories, unable to tell shit from Shinola. The authors thicken this almost indigestible dish, lobbing in – just to give one example, to show their methods […]
[…] a New Overt Publication, Effectively American-Oriented, on the Cultural Front’, 7th December 1947, p. 4. Interview with Melvin Lasky, Berlin, April 3rd 1999. Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy, Free Press, New York, 1989, p. 16. Pierre Grémion, Intelligence de L’Anticommunisme, Fayard, Paris, 1995, p.93. Speech to the Anglo-American Press Club, February 1952, CCF Archive […]
[…] section and dragged many of the people in for questioning. (44) On December 5, 1997, a warrant was issued for the Sanders’ arrest. They were charged with conspiracy to illegally remove parts of aircraft wreckage and the crime of aiding and abetting the removal of such materials. James Kallstrom said: ‘These defendants are charged […]
[…] hour with the Times or Guardian Index for the past few years would produce more supporting evidence.) Gerald Macklin, one of two IRA members convicted recently of conspiracy to cause explosions, made a speech from the dock in which he noted that ‘MI5 claims to have had the alleged IRA active service unit under […]
[…] of ideas have become a farce. The Left has no equal voice, no equal access to the mass media and their public facilities – not because a conspiracy excludes it, but because, in good old capitalist fashion, it does not have the required purchasing power. Notes FCO (2005) Westminster Foundation for Democracy, ‘Working for […]
[…] little later.) This is probably why I like it: that’s the stuff I grew up on. But the UK underground press didn’t have Steamshovel‘s huge input of conspiracy theories. Steamshovel also has the faults as well as the virtues of the UK underground press. Oz and IT and the rest were fascinating but hardly […]
[…] the old-fashioned political tactics its role was to be seminal in the founding of the National Front in 1967.’ Candour was a platform for A.K. Chesterton’s ‘simplistic conspiracy theory’ of Jewish bankers controlling the world. (3) Notes George Thayer, The British Political Fringe: A Profile (Anthony Blond 1965), p.58. Thanks are due to N. […]
