[…] fact, it was meant to be satire, written not edited by Barbara Goodwin. It is thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it […]
[…] of MI5. Some senior members of SOE also came from Slaughter & May. Cf Lobster Who’s Who. Barchard, p. 177 Brendon O’Malley and Ian Craig, The Cyprus Conspiracy, (London: IB Tauris, 1999) Ibid. This book was reviewed in Lobster 38 The sensitivity of the issue may be judged by the events surrounding the publication […]
[…] Britain’s relationship with Europe. Young concedes that at best, Britain’s relationship with Europe witnessed high political misjudgement, and at worst, involved not just a plot but a conspiracy; integration was accomplished only by deception.(36) Likewise, Shore charged that on the issue of Europe, deception has been practised by successive governments on a scale, and […]
[…] accurate sample of it, the extracts published in the Sunday Times (11th and 18th March 1984) are entirely representative of the larger work. Golitsyn offers a gigantic conspiracy theory the like of which is rarely found outside the fantasies of the loony right-wing (or parodies of that, such as Wilson/Shea’s spoof Illuminatus trilogy). That […]
[…] to pin it down as emanating from any one ideological strand is inappropriate.(44) The NF’s consciously articulated racist ideology, nationalism, support for nuclear weapons and adherence to conspiracy theories rules out any strategy of being ‘leftist’. The NF at the start of 1986 — a balance sheet In the period immediately preceding the outbreak […]
[…] the position and his current views on the continuing drugs/parapolitics connection. Z is $US3.50 per issue from 150 West Canton St, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Proof of Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination Now on Video… “Fake”! For more than 25 years photoanalyst Jack White has studied the famous “backyard” photographs of Lee Harvey Osward […]
[…] the Heckler and Koch MP5K to the Metropolitan Police. As Handgunner magazine (No 23 1984) noted: “It is soon apparent that here is an area in which conspiracy theorists could enjoy themselves.” Professor Paul Wilkinson, so-called counter-insurgency and terrorist expert, said in a letter to the Times (11th April 1984) that “The MP5 is […]
[…] be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, interest group, or class struggles. The study of secret societies smacks instead of pursuing discredited “ conspiracy” theories of history. In part, this attitude stems from a general ignorance of the existence and power of such groups. But they do exist: “modernisation” has […]
[…] one message between the two leaders which had apparently not been released into the public domain. In The Independent (24 August 1998) Paul Lashmar, in ‘Pearl Harbour conspiracy is bunk’, reported that the ‘secret file’ believed to contain the aforementioned ‘secret telegram’ had been released into the Public Record Office – and there was […]
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast … Read more
