[…] inquiry was redacted by the security services to remove criticism of the fact that MI5 and MI6 had falsely dismissed the ‘lab leak’ hypothesis as a ‘ conspiracy theory’. This is very striking and very odd. Did we know that ‘security’ officials (presumably MI5) had the right to edit official reports? And why did […]
[…] witnesses who saw things which didn’t fit the official verdict of ‘pilot error’ were marginalised or ignored and photographs were doctored. It looks like the standard formula: conspiracy and cover-up. The evidence assembled over the 50 years since can be construed to plausibly support a scenario in which the plane was brought down by […]
[PDF file]: […] we learned from this trial: using the same legal definition, Tsarnaev had weapons of mass destruction while Saddam Hussein didn’t. The first signs of the inevitable pro- conspiracy deconstruction of the bombing appeared almost before the smoke had cleared. As usual, this was a mixture of the odd, the anomalous and the inexplicable. There […]
[PDF file]: […] read this before it was posted?’ Thought for the day Someone called Tom (no surname) emailed me wondering about the current validity of Anthony Summers’ distinction between conspiracy theories and theories about conspiracies. Tom wonders if it wouldn’t make more sense to describe contemporary phenomena – such as QAnon – as conspiracy ideologies. There […]
[…] are sometimes called) which can’t survive on a battlefield? Apparently so. A number of heads should roll for this farce but, this being Blighty, none will. *new* Conspiracy theories Well, the academics are still beavering away at conspiracy theories and conspiracy theory. Take Michael Butter’s ‘Conspiracy Theories as Populist Counter-Narratives’.5 He offers this as […]
[PDF file]: Part 1 Conspiracy, Calamity and Cover-up reviewed by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn Andrew Rosthorn Lewes: Uniform, 2023, £35.00, h/b In a Lobster review of Richard J. Evans’s book The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination,1 John Newsinger welcomed a ‘well-informed and well-written’ account of the dozens of conspiracy theories generated […]
[…] the attempts by the British and American spooks to manipulate British political life, climaxing in the events between 1972-76, are here. As is one belter of a conspiracy theory which I hadn’t come across before. The author has a character suggest that two of the misfortunes which befell the England football team at the […]
[PDF file]: […] go as high as 90.3 Just one example: or 1 See, for example, . 2 See, for example, . 3 1 The view from the bridge These conspiracy theories about Clinton were created and distributed by the Republican right and its media. The creators were professionals, paid to do the job. Their output was […]
[…] go as high as 90.3 Just one example: . 1 See, for example, . 2 See, for example, . 3 1 The view from the bridge These conspiracy theories about Clinton were created and distributed by the Republican right and its media. The creators were professionals, paid to do the job. Their output was […]
[PDF file]: […] into an efficient, lethal army with bloodthirsty killers who mercilessly slaughtered innocent Israeli civilians’, said Mr Shumsky.51 49 . 50 or 51 17 None dare call it conspiracy I intended to read and review Mike Rothschild’s Jewish Space Lasers:The Rothschilds and 200 years of conspiracy theories (New York and London: Melville House Publishing, 2023).52 […]
