[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] to them by the police. As McCann was still at large, they feared for their safety because they believed they had witnessed a connection between the LSD conspiracy and Irish republican terrorism. The only other witness to this connection was Derek Donovan, who had introduced Solomon (and, via Solomon, the LSD cohorts and the […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] firm KPMG to advise on the English bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup and successfully uncovered Russian bribery in what he describes as ‘an international conspiracy at the heart of one of the most high-profile, feel-good sectors of the economy’. (p. 111) This can perhaps be considered as choir boy activity. And […]
[…] essay she ran several recognisably Russian state ‘lines’ on the conflict. I looked for other writing of hers and quoted some propounding a version of the big conspiracy theory held by some of the antivaxxers in the USA and Europe. Covert Action has recently published another essay by Ms Ende, ‘U.S. Media Are Lying […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
