[…] 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 […]
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
[…] done a couple of times on television, but much less comprehensively. Brown’s novelistic touches, however, frequently reduce the proceedings to the level of a Sydney Sheldon novel. Conspiracy Comics. Who Really Killed JFK? San Diego: Conspiracy Comics/Revolutionary Comics, March 1992. 32 pp. A comic book primer that asks the right questions, even if it […]
[…] information would be welcome), and author of Secrets of the Federal Reserve, a title which alone almost certainly locates Mullins in the middle of mainstream right-wing crackpot conspiracy theorists. Stranger and stranger, New Age Monitor describes Mullins as the Theosophical protege of no less than Ezra Pound, and a former correspondent to the English […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] if the organisers of the exhibition knew that they did not identify the passengers using DNA, then the number of people who are engaged in the 9/11 conspiracy is getting rather large; and this makes the notion of a conspiracy less plausible. Henshall refers to the DNA identification of the bodies and offers another […]
