[PDF file]: […] by his counterpart in MI6, but had no personal knowledge of, or planning role, in the incident.’6 Was the LIFG a terrorist organisation in 1996? This apparent conspiracy by MI6, using an Islamic extremist group to assassinate a foreign leader, was the moral tipping point for Shayler: ‘I joined the service to stop terrorism […]
[PDF file]: […] quite apart from anything else – an opportunist assertion of US power in general. In closing remarks, Harvey lambasts ‘….what amounts to academic groupthink – like other conspiracy theories, neoconism develops an entire narrative around a simplistic first image (leadership driven) theory6 about the Machiavellian brilliance and 6 Frank Harvey is here assuming the […]
[PDF file]: […] June, 2019 .) 12 13 This morally questionable but, nevertheless, legal explanation comes on p. 387. 14 p. 39 4 money? Looking beyond these character flaws, the conspiracy against him is well established by Rosthorn’s account. There are even hints that the intelligence services were involved. As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding […]
[PDF file]: […] cricketer Basil D’Oliveira, confirming with solid evidence the long-held suspicions of anti-apartheid campaigners about the malign roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet […]
South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the […]
[PDF file]: […] Treasury is getting governments to control spending,’ he said calmly. ‘So any excuse they can find for getting spending cut they will. It wasn’t so much a conspiracy against the government so much as an attempt to get the policies they believed in.’ Beckett comments: ‘It seemed rather a fine distinction. Perhaps sensing this, […]
[PDF file]: […] America in his ‘Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows’.4 ‘The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder […]
[PDF file]: […] because – unlike Bilderberg or similar effusions of establishment networking (including Davos) – they don’t appear to bear the imprint of political control or in extremis, ‘ conspiracy.’ Having said that, they are very obviously deeply committed to maintaining the fabric of the current social order. However I have not yet completed my list […]
[PDF file]: […] journalist described the CIA as ‘the single greatest cause of America’s world-wide unpopularity’, no less. Behind all this lay two things. The first was the idea that conspiracy was somehow a gentler way to effect political change than brute force, involving less bloodshed, at least among your own people. (‘Native’ blood, of course, was […]
[PDF file]: […] it seems unlikely to me that the Soviets would have sent someone quite so useless. 5 2 them were anti-semites, who believed that bolshevism was a Jewish conspiracy. (It is easy to forget that this was quite widely believed on the European and American right in the inter-war years.) It is this material which […]
