[…] have had the vision to understand that “They’ll come for us next.” In other words, the danger is that what begins with perhaps defensible suppression of loony conspiracy theorists on the right will eventually spread to 2 3 On Haley see the Texas Monthly article cited in note 4 above and . or https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/73/ […]
[…] place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of that was E. Howard Hunt, just […]
[PDF file]: […] own, an attempt made all the more grotesque by their religiosity. A book published in 2011, Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True, by the American right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Dice (600,000 Twitter followers and over 1.5 million YouTube subscribers) is a good example of the phenomenon. He was considered important enough to be […]
[PDF file]: […] elsewhere in Europe. David Aaronovitch I was contacted by BBC’s ‘The Daily Politics’: would I like to appear with David Aaronovitch? Why me? I would be defending conspiracy theories, the researcher suggested. Ah-hah. I said, ‘No thanks: I do not want to appear with Aaronovitch. He doesn’t deserve the attention he gets.’ The researcher […]
[PDF file]: […] unbidden and the title wasn’t encouraging. ‘The global coup d’etat’ is unintelligible, since d’etat refers to a state. The Great Reset? – ah yes, a cluster of conspiracy theories which were generated during COVID about . . . well some kind of global conspiracy. (I didn’t pay much attention at the time.)1 So I […]
[…] account of Oswald at . 3 material linking Oswald to US intelligence agencies; and it is possible that they dismiss all that kind of information as ‘ conspiracy theories’ not worth their attention and are simply unaware of it. Even if they are familiar with it, Shenon is a former New York Times journalist […]
[…] recently, is the Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).25 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
[PDF file]: […] November 22, 1963 remain unknown. 26 10 Still . . . On The Atlantic site there is an essay by Brian Klass on the current popularity of conspiracy theories in America, ‘Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy’.27 It is illustrated with this image. Kennedy assassination research next to Jewish space lasers . . . It is […]
[PDF file]: […] the truth. But, as history has shown all too often, the desires of mass audiences can be deflected and manipulated by powerful interests. Take, for example, the conspiracy theory which holds that the psychedelic counter-culture of the 1960s was engineered by the CIA as part of a plot by a secret, global elite bent […]
[…] place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of that was E. Howard Hunt, just […]
