[…] 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 […]
[…] p. 204. See for example, Glenn Greenwald’s comprehensive debunking of the ‘lone nut’ theory with regard to scientist Bruce Irvins Greenwald highlights proof positive of a media-establishment conspiracy surrounding the original anthrax story in the form of ABC’s four or five ‘separate well placed sources’. ‘Benazir to give IAEA access to A.Q. Khan’, Anwar […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] client that their vote has been misrepresented.’ Indeed, the astonishing thing about fiddling an election is how many people won’t lift a finger to prevent it. A conspiracy of silence In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] is with individual monitoring.’ They rather miss the whole point. At least some of their colleagues are more honest when they direct their ire at the Anglo-American conspiracy to undermine honest, continental business values. They know where their interests lie. For NSA buffs there is much in Bamford’s book to recommend it, but it […]
[…] today. Directive number N/99639 of BIS demanded the establishment of a net of Agents among their residents in Europe. These groups, whose purpose was to have been conspiracy only, were prepared for carrying out activities of sabotage, diversion and terror in cases of ‘special circumstance’ all in case of worsening relations in those states. […]
[…] 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 […]
