[…] US/UK invaders deviously encouraged fear among both sects that the other would seek hegemony, inspiring ‘polarization and bloody strife’ (p. 35). Saddam Hussein joined a failed Ba’athist conspiracy in 1959 to assassinate President Quasim, who had gained power the year before in a nationalist coup that killed the Iraqi royal family and the prime […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a member of the Bush family should be gift-wrapped in the crap he bequeathed. Some of the entanglements of the Bush family have been presented as a conspiracy – a hidden and mysterious plot at the apparent centre of which lies the Bush alma mater Yale University’s Skull and Bones society – a variation […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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?
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
