Chip Berlet This 63-page essay describes a wide range of contacts between what in a British context would be described as right-wing conspiracy theorists and the left. Berlet documents a range of contacts between the far-right Liberty Lobby, followers of LaRouche, Bo Gritz and the Populist Party, the Christic Institute, Radio Free America and […]
[…] the book’s endnotes simply say ‘Gordiefsky’.(See, for example, the review by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Atlantic, March 1991.) In his review of Steve Dorril’s The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Andrew commented that ‘readers…. may find it disconcerting to discover from endnotes that so many of his sources are […]
[…] were the ‘radical right’ in America for whom Tragedy and Hope became a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy nonetheless. But apart from them, the only people who […]
[…] that would be enough for many on the US Left to refuse to read him – or simply discount his views. This has happened to the Chicago conspiracy researcher Sherman Skolnick. I have read little of Skolnick’s work, and what I have read did not impress. But Skolnick writes for The Spotlight. Cue contamination […]
[…] the best by a former After Dark guest but also not willing to authenticate claims I could not substantiate, I reached for another of our laws of conspiracy: Rule D: The journey away from truth. We know the secret world has biases towards certain personality traits and it is not always the case that […]
A current example of a conspiracy theory is the continuing attempt to paint Roger Hollis as a member of the so-called ‘Ring of Five’. There is, it should be said, not a shred of evidence that Hollis ever passed a single piece of information to the Soviets, nor that he had any contacts with […]
[…] were the ‘radical right’ in America, for whom Tragedy and Hope became a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy none the less. But apart from them, the only […]
[…] Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) saying it was unfairly edit-ed, used without his consent and made him appear to be ‘a “crank” and conspiracy theorist.’(3) Equally perturbed but using […]
[…] Also remote viewing, Oklahoma City bombing. alt.politics.media eg remote viewing, far right, Mena, McLibel legal action alt.freedom.of.information.act Items on US Communications Decency Act, concerned with online censorship CONSPIRACY Web Conspiracy Page http://www.nova.cioe.com/html/politics.html Lists conspiracy-related net sites and newsgroups. Under ‘top secret files’ the menu includes Bilderbergers, EMP Weapons, FEMA, HAARP, Mind Control, Nazis and […]
[…] researchers have followed this advice. For many it is practically axiomatic that complicity in the cover-up following JFK’s shooting implies complicity in, or knowledge of, the murder conspiracy. From the cover-up the trail can be followed back to the crime. But practically the entire U.S. establishment took part in the cover-up: national and local […]
