[…] Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar; and that Clinton referred to Quigley in his acceptance speech to the Democratic Party convention. Holy moley! Clinton makes pitch for conspiracy buff vote? Birchers in hog heaven! As Daniel Brandt points out in his essay in this issue, Clinton had been at a Bilderberg meeting in 1991, […]
[…] hour with the Times or Guardian Index for the past few years would produce more supporting evidence.) Gerald Macklin, one of two IRA members convicted recently of conspiracy to cause explosions, made a speech from the dock in which he noted that ‘MI5 claims to have had the alleged IRA active service unit under […]
[…] Pine Gap, MJ-12, the mafia – even the Illuminati – all the signs to me of a beginner floundering around in the wonderful wacky world of American conspiracy theories, unable to tell shit from Shinola. The authors thicken this almost indigestible dish, lobbing in – just to give one example, to show their methods […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the old-fashioned political tactics its role was to be seminal in the founding of the National Front in 1967.’ Candour was a platform for A.K. Chesterton’s ‘simplistic conspiracy theory’ of Jewish bankers controlling the world. (3) Notes George Thayer, The British Political Fringe: A Profile (Anthony Blond 1965), p.58. Thanks are due to N. […]
[…] 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 […]
Introduction by Kenn Thomas Foreword by David Hatcher Childress Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, USA, 1996, $16.00 Also known as ‘Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal’, the so-called Torbitt Memorandum (‘Document’ here for some reason) has been floating around the JFK research world since the early 1970s. Torbitt looked quite promising initially: lots of interesting […]
JFK bits and pieces Paul Hoch recommends JFK:The Book of the Film (Applause Books, 211 West 71 St NY, NY 10023). This contains a footnoted JFK screenplay and about 350 pages of published articles, including some of the best anti-Stone stories. The final badge of honour was bestowed upon Stone’s movie by a long, ludicrous … Read more
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
