[…] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with nonsense conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[…] never be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was a racist 3 conspiracy, not when they said that vaccines stopped transmission of the novel coronavirus. Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is. The authors7 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] to Intelligence Activities of the United States Senate. 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Book II (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976), pp. 25-31; Kathryn S. Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 69; Victor Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate (New York: […]
[PDF file]: […] Holt on November 22, 1963 remain unknown. 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 the image below. 26 or 27 10 Kennedy assassination research next to Jewish space lasers […]
