[…] 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 […]
[…] politics about whom little has appeared in the British press – is at Stevenson is the figure on the left of the picture that tops William Clark’s posting. Murray’s evidence can be viewed at Murray posts a lively blog at For the apology and Godson’s 2007 ‘Newsnight’ performance, see Sunny Hundal’s ‘Liberal Conspiracy’ story at
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] between. As far as it goes it is quite interesting, initially rather amusing, to read the lunatic opinions of the far-right on almost everything from the Global Conspiracy to fluoride. But by about page 40 the succession of dotty prophets gets wearisome. The one section worth photocopying, perhaps, is that on the far-right’s reactions […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping up on a position not so very dissimilar to the kinds of conspiracy theories popular during ‘roll-back’s’ hey-day, in the early 1950s: “Let us, for the sake of argument accept the explanations for our giving aid to Mozambique. Perhaps […]
[…] to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like IRD’s […]
[…] 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 […]
