[PDF file]: […] harbours for the descendants of its slave population was now reshaped as a version of anti-communism, which of course had to be rooted in an alleged foreign conspiracy – conceived in the Soviet Union of course. In the ante-bellum era as well as the period before the UDI of 1776, slaveholders regularly asserted that […]
[PDF file]: Hess DNA: Round 151 Andrew Rosthorn On 22 January 2019, the New Scientist announced: Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory Founded in 1956 for ‘all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences’, the New Scientist claimed to be settling 79 years of doubt about the identity of a German pilot […]
[PDF file]: ‘Epistemic homicide’ On Disinformation How to fight for truth and protect democracy Lee McIntyre Cambridge (Mass.) and London: MIT Press, 2023, (p/b) $14.95/£10.99 Robin Ramsay This is a short book of about 24,000 words on a very important and complex subject from an American perspective. So much of it is quotable, what follows is mostly […]
[PDF file]: […] who died of a heart attack in 2017 – has a Wikipedia entry in English.2 He was on the right, a nationalist, anti-Islam and occasionally prone to conspiracy theorising. This makes him sound like a nutter, but he wasn’t that. For a while he was deputy editor of a major German daily newspaper, Frankfurter […]
[PDF file]: […] as a soldier were tactical rather than strategic. When it came to the strategic situation the US found itself in, he increasingly embraced a variety of neo-con conspiracy theories that were bolstered by what his staff derisively called ‘Flynn facts’; that is ‘facts’ that were not actually true. Conflict with other agencies and with […]
[PDF file]: […] the support of the majority of Labour Party members in London, something he considers so odd that it can only be explained by the existence of a conspiracy against him. Piara Khabra died in 2007, and therefore cannot sue. Many of those mentioned unflatteringly in the book are similarly deceased. The bigger picture And […]
[…] no information on Lansdale’s whereabouts that day. ChatGPT can find nothing. E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA officer who talked about the CIA’s role in the assassination conspiracy when he was old and ill, did not mention Lansdale. But, assuming it is Lansdale, would his presence there make sense? It would. The piggy-back theory […]
[PDF file]: […] the practice in courts and in the media in a manner so adamant that the few remaining skeptics who accused it of lying were treated like wild-haired conspiracy junkies.’ (p. 164 emphases added) Further on, Snowden makes a more important, and perhaps overlooked revelation, that the scale and scope of the mass surveillance program […]
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JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir Robin Ramsay LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. T his a 700 page, self-published synthesis of the recent Kennedy assassination literature, inside which is about 100 pages relevant […]
