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The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings
[PDF file]: […] later of course became its Director-General) match up pretty well with TrevorRoper’s picture of MI6 in the 1940s. Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘ conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by […]
The Cuntocracy
[PDF file]: […] that our social science work here merely forms a type of satire and is incompatible with a ‘serious’ sociological analysis and is in effect some kind of conspiracy theory, we can say that it is at times difficult to be able to distinguish between the two when these things are made so; but we […]
The Trump threat or the rule of the Don
[PDF file]: […] regime that has no intention of allowing itself to be weakened or removed by what is left of US bourgeois democracy. This is not some sort of conspiracy theory. Trump has already tried to overturn a presidential election result by means of a coup and now, in his second term, has filled his administration […]
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne
[PDF file]: […] and Samuel Huntington, and then from 9/11 in 2001. The author details the propagandist role of the pro-Israel thinks tanks in Peter Oborne, Basil D’Oliveira, Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story (London: Little, Brown, 2004) 1 The Dispatches programme on the Israel lobby is on YouTube at . The text of the programme is […]
The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold Story by James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire
[PDF file]: […] do know that Coulson’s earlier employer, News International (now News UK), made very little of his return to civvy street five months into his 18-month sentence for conspiracy to hack phones and of the Conservative defeat in what was previously a very safe Tory seat. The linked worlds of criminality, the media, the state […]
Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy
[PDF file]: […] allegations provided a rich source of material. On 16 June 1986, just three weeks after Stalker was suspended, the BBC TV Panorama programme broadcast a report ‘ Conspiracy or Coincidence?’ This provided a somewhat confusing narrative, at a time when many of the allegations against Stalker were clearly sub judice and subject to on-going […]
Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain
[PDF file]: […] from the Right.2 No wonder the remaining CPGB members were so shocked in 1991 when they discovered that the right’s view of the CPGB as a Moscow-directed conspiracy turned out to be partly true. Former member and CPGB employee, journalist Sarah Benton, reacted with talk of ‘the other communist parties’, meaning, I guess, various […]
South of the border (occasional snippets from)
[PDF file]: […] book by John Robles. As Robin points out, it’s a self-published rant about NATO apparently being founded by Nazis. If you’re into this wackier end of the conspiracy oeuvre then I’m sure you’ll also enjoy Kennedy’s Last Stand: Eisenhower, UFOs, MJ-12 & JFK’s Assassination by Michael E. Salla.21 And . . . yes . […]
Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?
[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 […]