[…] 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, […]
[…] 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
[…] people to walk through and see the career prospects ahead – if they follow the general line. Grooves of academe Here come the academics, homing in on conspiracy theories. As well as the Peter Knight book reviewed in this issue by Tony Frewin, we have had recently his collection Conspiracy Nation:the politics of paranoia […]
[…] 33 are tremendously useful in understanding the recent political changes in the UK, and also in understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion of the U.S. mall culture. The U.S. […]
[…] 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 […]
