[…] evidence.’ I never decided whether I believed this or not. The high point of his propaganda activities was probably the publication in 1974 and 1979 of The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of the Labour Party by ‘communists’ and, in the 1979 version, by ‘communist’ […]
[…] that it isn’t produced in the USA, but Australia. Somehow — how? why? — the Australian cultural climate has produced the same curious, populist (yes) nexus of hidden history, conspiracy theories, suppressed cures and medicines, and ‘free’ energy devices hitherto only seen in the USA. How real most of it is, I have no […]
[…] so far as I can judge, the author recounts a complete story within the picture she gives. Of course, much of the essential story may remain perpetually hidden, and readers of Lobster may know more of some aspects than is revealed in this book’s 279 pages. What I found most compelling was the growing […]
[…] and it became in many countries a criminal offence to subscribe to or propagate such views. Goodrick-Clarke shows how the new generation of ultra-rightists have, as ever, hidden behind an array of diversionary symbols: the Knights Templar, ancient civilisations, ley lines, deluges, Atlantis, the hollow earth (also a favourite pre-1945), Nazi UFOs, alien abductions, […]
[…] all 290 Moslems aboard, in Islamic airspace earlier in the year. A warning went out to European airports in early December, 1988, to watch out for bombs hidden in cassette recorders. The American embassy in Helsinki received a message on 5 December, 1988, that ‘within the next few weeks’ there would be an attack […]
[…] established: ‘Sometime in this period, the American Intelligence community got what apparently was its first look, via the KH-11 , at the completed and operational missile launchers hidden in the side of a hill…. The launchers were left in the open, perhaps deliberately, making it much easier for American photo-interpreters to spot them.’(12) This […]
[…] event that triggered everything off, 9/11. Russ Kick here presents a fairly comprehensive piece, which should, if nothing else, make readers question the received wisdom on this. Hidden History is the theme for the fifth section. One very topical item is Ovidio Diaz-Espino’s wonderful piece about the building of the Panama Canal (instead of […]
[…] One of the POWs claimed to be the officer who wrote the North Vietnamese navy’s assessment of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Intrigued by this peek at hidden history, Tourison let the man rattle on. Unfortunately, neither the POW nor Tourison was in complete control of the facts. Tourison still thinks — as do […]
[…] as dramatic as that of Obama’s race, was a contentious one, and not just in my school-yard. It was presented more along the lines of Obama’s alleged hidden loyalty to Islam: a Catholic president, it was argued, would be subservient to his master in Rome. That Kennedy’s own political strategists brought the issue into […]
[…] provided with a packed lunch.”‘ Love the bit about the packed lunch…. I’m old enough to remember when the Sunday Times was a credible paper. Timor docs hidden Under the headline, ‘Britain keeps lid on MI6 role in ousting Sukarno’, Paul Lashmar in The Independent on 5 October reported: ‘…documents which would reveal Britain’s […]
