[…] conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, you don’t want to go there!’ The first agreed enthusiastically, and a kind of double-act developed: ‘Mind […]
[PDF file]: Impossible Knowledge Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth Todor Hristov London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £45 (UK), h/b The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish” Katharina Thalmann London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £29.99 (UK), p/b Robin Ramsay Todor Hristov alerted this reader in his short […]
[…] piece are those describing the way the Reagan administration has taken the logical step of trying to get the intelligence agencies to produce ‘proof’ of their various conspiracy theories about the world. The logic of Goodman’s article appears to be that what the US intelligence service needs is a bunch of Marxists to do […]
In an article in the Journal of Popular Culture, (1) one of the editors of the Jonestown Report considers the role that conspiracy theories have played in the unfolding narrative of ‘Jonestown’. It is a worthwhile endeavour to which few scholars could bring better credentials. Rebecca Moore is a professor of religious studies at […]
[…] JFK?, Plexus, 1992. Jim Marrs, Crossfire; The Plot that Killed Kennedy, Carroll & Graf, 1992. David E. Scheim, The Mafia Killed President Kennedy, Virgin, 1992. Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, Sphere, 1992. The release of the Oliver Stone film has seen a crop of books reissued and repackaged on the assassination of President Kennedy. Summers’ Conspiracy […]
[…] involvement declined from being branch secretary and local election agent to being just another inactive member, unable to cut the cord. I eventually resigned over Iraq. A conspiracy theorist? Much of the content of this book would be described as conspiracy theories by the major media. I would reject that – and echoing at […]
[…] and Fascist power and the movement of their own country towards social democracy was a welcome improvement on what had gone before. Postscript: Hess, the historian, and conspiracy In 1973 Hugh Thomas, a British Army surgeon working at Spandau prison in Berlin, examined prisoner number 7, otherwise known as Rudolf Hess. He was startled […]
[…] insurance salesman Perry Raymond Russo came into the picture and claimed he had attended a party where Ferrie, ‘Bertrand’ and Oswald had talked of assassinating Kennedy, the conspiracy was apparently proved. But the evidence was flimsy at best. Shaw was a homosexual and may have had a relationship with Ferrie (also a homosexual) – […]
[…] disturbed by Hilda, and that as a consequence of tackling her intruder, she was abducted from her home, stabbed and left to die of hyperthermia. Good old conspiracy theory The other studies opt for one of two ‘conspiracy theories’. The first links the Murrell death to the Falklands War, and in particular the Belgrano […]
[…] nefarious Zionist influence in offering them their promised land in Palestine. The way this story is now told plays on the myth of an all-powerful secret Jewish conspiracy behind the scenes. Well, there was a conspiracy of sorts but it was not a Jewish one, and the ringleaders were British. It is important to […]
