[…] 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 […]
[…] have identified me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had […]
[…] issue. Between issues 23 and 24 when I rang to arrange a meeting he told me he was too busy writing the book which became The Silent Conspiracy to meet me to discuss Lobster24. OK, thought I, this is silly: too busy to meet to even discuss the magazine which carries your name? I […]
[…] of anyone else. The Research Centre is going to produce newsletters, clippings etc. Help Wanted Peter Jordon was convicted some years ago of being part of a conspiracy, with members of INLA (if memory serves), to assassinate a British Army officer. Whether he was guilty or not (or what he thought he was doing) […]
[…] U.S. Department of State. Identifying Misinformation aims to put paid to rumours and ill-founded tales that might show the USA in a bad light. With sections including Conspiracy Theories (‘Did the US “create” Osama bin Laden?’), Military Misinformation (‘Depleted uranium’), and Deliberate Disinformation (‘Saddam’s disinformation’; ‘Soviet disinformation’), plus guidance on ‘How to identify misinformation’, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] SIS on them? Then the Sunday Telegraph had to apologise to the son of Colonel Gadafi whom it had accused in 1995 of being involved in a conspiracy to flood Iran with counterfeit money. This was a whiz-bang from those ingenious people at SIS, given to Con Coughlin then the Sunday Telegraph’s man in […]
Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in the … Read more
[…] but by the Defense Secretary. In other words, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had to personally approve any action.(7) These items alone make the case of the 9-11 conspiracy theorists look plausible. On the World Socialist Web site, Patrick Martin concludes that the evidence suggests that the Bush administration was expecting al Qaeda to hijack […]
[…] evidence that Phillips was involved in the circulation of disinformation about the killing after the fact, oddly enough, of evidence that Phillips was involved in the actual conspiracy there is not a word. Outlined like this it may not sound much, but this is a really good book, one of the best three or […]
