[…] not only total junk, they are turgid in the extreme. On both occasions I tried to read one I gave up pretty quickly. Most of the right-wing’s conspiracy theorists are short on documentation and logic, but some, notably Gary Allen, just about carry this sceptical reader along. Reading Nesta Webster, on the other hand, […]
[…] 58, an activist and political researcher who was well-known in the Portland, Oregon area, died on February 13, 1998 from an aneurism in the brain. Corruption and conspiracy in high places is the name of the game, but Ace was on the case. His broad familiarity with the dark side of American history will […]
[…] In the March/April 1995 issue there is a report on CSICOP’s annual conference, a chunk of which was devoted to the ritual trashing of the poor, demented, conspiracy buff by a couple of the incisive brains of the CSICOP. In one A4 page, their speakers, Melanie Klein and Don Yates, as reported in the […]
[…] ideological milieu from which Agca emerged in Turkey and the bulk of the reliable evidence concerning the plot. In addition to accepting the validity of this ‘first conspiracy’, one that was rooted in indigenous Turkish politics, I believe that said evidence also suggest that there was a ‘second conspiracy’ launched by rightist elements within […]
Brendan O’Malley and Ian Craig I.B. Tauris, London, 1999, £19.95 O’Malley and Craig are two senior British journalists and they have written a very interesting account of the post-WW2 machinations of America and Britain – initially Britain but, post Suez, chiefly America, as senior partner – to keep the people of Cyprus internally divided (Turks … Read more
[…] just showed the Arabs the way out of the country into Pakistan”…..That Ali had entrusted suggested to us that the escapes were part of a much broader conspiracy to assist al Qaeda right through to the end. How high up did this conspiracy go? Certainly Ali’s failure to capture Osama could have been and […]
[…] the possibility of a confluence of interest and activity among any, or all, of the above factions. Or maybe these events are unconnected, and there is no conspiracy at all. Since leaving office, Carlos Salinas de Gortari has been treated by the American and European press as a homeless, tragi-comic figure, sending mad faxes […]
[…] what we all know already – the Zinoviev letter was a fake, passed to the Daily Mail by Tory-supporting intelligence officers – combined with the classic ‘no conspiracy’ line. In this case, since the letter is an acknowledged forgery, and there was a conspiracy, there are two specious cop-outs. Not only is there ‘no […]
[…] Criticism from this kind of quarter is worse than water off a duck’s back. It toughens the feathers, confirms the poor Kansans in their prejudices. A vast conspiracy One of those prejudices is that there is a vast conspiracy at work against them, composed of those self-same liberals, backed by dark agencies unknown. This […]
[…] with Callaghan’s establishment of his 1976 economic seminar to accommodate the demands of the IMF (in which experts outnumbered politicians two to one) and changes to the conspiracy laws in 1977. The latter criminalised much trade union activity and other expressions of dissent and led to the show trial of Des Warren and the […]
