[…] circles in the Soviet Union thought about the assassination. But the authors make almost no effort to distance themselves from the tripe about an oil depletion allowance conspiracy, nor do they stop to consider the implications of an intelligence service so hidebound by ideology that it cannot report objectively on the adversary’s camp.’ Verrrryyy […]
[…] of their audio files, telephone conversations and situation room discussions, all recorded during the 9/11 attacks.(28) Is all this information too late? According to one study, ‘ conspiracy thinking is now a normal part of mainstream political conflict in the United States’ especially amongst members of less powerful groups who are ‘more likely to […]
[…] of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Butman and Sprinkle write in their Introduction, ‘What we, the authors, have done is research dozens and dozens of books on the conspiracy, plot , murder and evident cover-up. We then picked five of what we felt were the most informative and interesting of those books and reviewed them […]
[…] This is quite a step for a journal called Covert Action, founded around the whistle-blowing of Philip Agee. For almost nothing is more redolent of crazy right-wing conspiracy theories than the debate about flouridation. So bravo to that. It’s an interesting essay, too, by the way. Griffiths argues, with considerable respectable-looking documentation, that the […]
[…] Verso, 2003, £17, h/b William Pepper has solved the King assassination. He hasn’t quite got enough to name the shooter but he has laid bare the conspiracy. It has taken him 20 years. Is there a comparable piece of research by an individual? I cannot think of one. Some of this material was […]
[…] tricks to block Clinton’s election in 1992, and how allegations that the 1980 Presidential election was fixed were whitewashed and key documents hidden. Steamshovel Press http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma US conspiracy ‘zine. Gives contents pages of back issues plus sample article. Microwave News http://www.microwavenews.com/ ‘The worlds’ most authoritative source on EMF health risks’ Covers civil and military […]
[…] subjects but not others. The section on JFK’s death for example, doesn’t even attempt a summary, merely running us through one of the many developments in the past decade. They are also curiously reluctant to dismiss rubbish as rubbish (e.g. the Gemstone File). Recommended only if you want a quick skim across American-oriented conspiracy theories.
[…] (Back in the 1970s the US porno mags were virtually the only major media to publish what we now call parapolitics.) Pearson’s article became a 1978 book, Conspiracy of Silence, which I lent and lost, a few copies of which are available at the amazing second-hand book site < www.abebooks.com/ >. The story has […]
Books The Flight of KAL 007: evidence of conspiracy R. B. Cutler Cutler is the editor/producer of the Grassy Knoll Gazette, one of the JFK assassination journals. Over the years he has produced a great many books/pamphlets on the case. This is a 40 page pamphlet full of Cutler’s beautiful drawings and maps which […]
[…] work well, on domestic as well as foreign policy issues (some discussed in a just-issued revised edition of Manufacturing Consent). I have even discussed its application to conspiracy theories, some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of […]
