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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge > Conspiracy theories
This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably
constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous,
secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of
national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore
these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be,
since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The
first volume in this two-volume collection focuses on the history
of underground neo-fascist networks in the post-World War II era;
neo-fascist paramilitary and terrorist groups operating in Europe
and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s; and the manipulation of
those and other terrorist organizations by the security forces of
various states, both authoritarian and democratic. A range of
global case studies are included, all of which focus on the lesser
known activities of certain secular extremist milieus. This
collection should prove to be essential reading for students and
researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but
nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and
contemporary politics.
There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an
increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich,
the powerful and the elected to prevent the truth from coming out -
to bury it, warp it, twist it to suit their purposes. Truthteller
exposes this toolbox of lies and deception, and reveals how
governments and corporations have covered-up mass murder,
corruption and catastrophe. In a world where Putin and Trump have
successfully branded journalists as traffickers in fake news, while
promoting the actual creators of fake news, investigative reporter
Stephen Davis shows the tools that are used to deceive us and
explains why they work. He draws from over three decades as an
award-winning reporter, editor, foreign correspondent, television
producer, documentary filmmaker, and journalism educator to analyse
exclusive documents and interviews. Discover shocking details of
deception in media across the globe and learn how to recognise and
decode the lies we are told by those in power. Truthteller is an
essential guide for understanding the modern media world - for
teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to know the
facts, not fake news and conspiracy theories. It takes you inside
the world of investigative reporting in an intimate history of a
reporter's battles, won and lost, the personal and professional
costs and the lives damaged along the way.
_______________________________ THIS SHOCKING CONSPIRACY THRILLER
IS A WORK OF FICTION. MOSTLY. _______________________________ What
if the President of the United States is a foreign intelligence
asset? It's October 2016. A loud, brash businessman with a history
of shady dealings and sexual misbehaviour is a serious contender to
win the presidency. Even a porn star's credible allegations don't
seem to slow him down. But his most dangerous secrets may be hidden
behind the former Iron Curtain. Journalist Grace Elliot is
dispatched to Europe, hot on the trail of a story so big it could
blow up the entire election - if she can stay alive long enough to
tell it: The man who might become President was married to a Czech
woman with a beguiling and contradictory past, no records, and no
history - and who has all the hallmarks of a Soviet intelligence
asset. Her codename is Kingfisher. And her mission is almost
complete... THE AUTHOR HAS CHOSEN TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS OUT OF
CONCERN FOR THE SAFETY OF HIS OR HER SOURCES.
In June 1916, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener set sail from Orkney on
a secret mission to bolster the Russian war effort. Just a mile off
land and in the teeth of a force 9 gale, HMS Hampshire suffered a
huge explosion, sinking in little more than fifteen minutes. Crew
and passengers numbered 749; only twelve survived. Kitchener's body
was never found. Remembered today as the face of the famous First
World War recruitment drive, at the height of his career Kitchener
was feted as Britain's greatest military hero since Wellington. By
1916, however, his star was in its descent. A controversial figure
who did not make friends easily in Cabinet, he was considered by
many to be arrogant, secretive and high-handed. From the moment his
death was announced, rumours of a conspiracy began to flourish,
with the finger pointed variously at the Bolsheviks, Irish
nationalist saboteurs and even the British government. Using newly
released files kept secret for almost 100 years, former Cabinet
minister David Laws unravels the true story behind the demise of
this complex figure, debunking the conspiracy theories and
revealing the crucial blunders that the government and military
sought to cover up. The result is the definitive account of an
event that shook the country and which has been shrouded in mystery
ever since.
Pursuing his investigations of high financial fraud, international banking, hidden systems of finance, black budgets and breakaway civilizations, author and researcher Joseph P. Farrell continues his examination of the post-war Nazi International, an “extra-territorial state” without borders or capitals, a network of terrorists, drug runners, and people in the very heights of financial power willing to commit financial fraud in amounts totaling trillions of dollars.
Breakaway civilizations, black budgets, secret technology, occult rituals, international terrorism, giant corporate cartels, patent law and the hijacking of nature: it’s all in this book where Farrell explores what he calls ‘the business model’ of the post-war Axis elite.
It is Farrell at his best―uncovering the gargantuan financial fraud and hidden technology of the breakaway civilization.
The President and the Provocateur explores the parallel lives of
John F. Kennedy, born into wealth and celebrity, destined for glory
and a violent death, and of Lee Harvey Oswald, born into poverty
and obscurity, murdered in police custody and convicted - without a
lawyer or a trial - of the killing of JFK. 50 years after both men
were murdered, Alex Cox provides a chronological account of their
lives' strange intersections, their shared interests, and the
increasing body of evidence which suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald
was working for some branch of the government - most likely the FBI
or IRS - as an infiltrator of subversive groups, and agent
provocateur. The President and the Provocateur draws on five
decades of accumulated evidence that Oswald was an intelligence
agent and agent provocateur. Far from being an active Communist,
Oswald was mainly interested in infiltrating right-wing groups
(including the White Russian community of Fort Worth, the National
States Rights Party, the Minutemen, and the Cuban Alpha 66
terrorist organization in Dallas and New Orleans). From this
perspective his alleged purchasing of guns by mail may be the
actions of someone attempting to build a case against right-wing
gun-runners and their suppliers - something the IRS and Senator
Christopher Dodd's Subcommittee were also doing, at exactly the
same time. The possibility that Oswald was sent as a spy to Russia
has been raised before, but this is the first book to detail
Oswald's continued pattern of intelligence-gathering and
infiltration of political groups on his return to the USA.
"Final Warning" is the definitive resource on the nature and
origins of the movement towards a one-world government. A wealth of
in-depth research explains the roles of the major arms of the
conspiracy today, such as the Federal Reserve, the Committee on
Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission and the
Bilderbergers. The history of the New World Order is traced, from
the Illuminati and the fomenting of the French Revolution, to the
1913 takeover of the US government by the bankers, the world wars,
the rise of communism and the United Nations.
The Telescreen is the pervasive media screen put in front of, and
injected into, the eyes and ears of humans in the American
electronic techno-culture. This begins from birth, and moulds
consciousness throughout life: not a genuine human consciousness,
but rather is a less-than-human, despiritualized
semi-consciousness. People today continually flood their
consciousnesses with images and impressions from television,
videogames, church, radio, billboards, textbooks, magazines,
newspapers, etc.- the "telescreen world" of Orwell's 1984. The
Telescreen is about how this pseudosphere destroys consciousness
and society as humans give their attention, consciousness, and
vital spirit to the telescreen. The result is a society of unholy
subhumans, who no longer act like they have souls: They cannot turn
off the telescreen world even to have dinner and talk to each other
or to their children. When they do talk it is mostly about
impressions from the telescreen world. Their inner subjective
consciousness is constructed and formed by the telescreen, leading
to a world of despiritualization and warmongering by hordes of
conformist, petty, unhappy troll-like "yes-men." -- Jeff Grupp The
telescreens of 1984 substituted fiction lives for the empty ones of
a brainwashed population, as in Plato's cave. Grupp drives it home
that this is our world now. Some features of this dream-world of
The Telescreen: Materialism and consumerism make people into
robots, shallow stooges. Degrading self-images, down-dumbing
education of drills, not thinking skills. War propaganda fed on
pure fakery and repetition by the media, censored of truth and
filled with non-news, gossip and cant. Brainwashing underpinned by
fallacious reasoning. Example: Iran and Iraq slandered as
murderously planning to unleash WMDs, while the US really has and
uses them for genocide against target nations. Information warfare:
The bias of "educational" TV shows like the "History Channel."
Trusted figures hired to peddle suspect messages. Journalists who
stray from the party line into real issues are fired. Exploiting
the herd instinct to impose conformity. Psychological tyranny is
more effective than brute force. An artificial consciousness is
dinned into people by constant electronic stimuli. They depend on
it -- and on pharmaceutical drugs too -- for a feeling of
well-being: they are addicts. Appendix -- Infowars articles: the
NWO is taking over the patriot and truth movements, seemingly
attacking itself. We need Jeffersonian militias, not gun control.
-- J-P Leonard
The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the
President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of
a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of
what happened on November 22, 1963? Philip Shenon, a veteran
investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The New
York Times, finally provides many of the answers. Though A CRUEL
AND SHOCKING ACT began as Shenon's attempt to write the first
insider's history of the Warren Commission, it quickly became
something much larger and more important when he discovered
startling information that was withheld from the Warren Commission
by the CIA, FBI and others in power in Washington. Shenon shows how
the commission's ten-month investigation was doomed to fail because
the man leading it - Chief Justice Earl Warren - was more committed
to protecting the Kennedy family than getting to the full truth
about what happened on that tragic day. A taut, page-turning
narrative, Shenon's book features some of the most compelling
figures of the twentieth century-Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Chief Justice Warren, CIA
spymasters Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, as well as the CIA's
treacherous 'molehunter,' James Jesus Angleton. Based on hundreds
of interviews and unprecedented access to the surviving commission
staffers and many other key players, Philip Shenon's authoritative,
scrupulously researched book will forever change the way we think
about the Kennedy assassination and about the deeply flawed
investigation that followed.
In a quest to discover the truth behind the twentieth century's
disastrous record of conflict and war, Terry Boardman considers two
contradictory approaches to history: so-called cock-up theory and
conspiracy theory. Could there be truth to the often-dismissed
concept of conspiracy in history: the manipulation of external
events by groups and individuals mostly hidden from the public eye?
In the work of philosopher and scientist Rudolf Steiner, Boardman
finds convincing evidence of the existence of secretive circles in
the West, which have plans for humanity's long-term future. Steiner
indicated that such 'brotherhoods' had prepared for world war in
the twentieth century, and had instructed their members, using
redrawn maps as a guide, on how Europe was to be changed. If these
brotherhoods existed in Steiner's time, could they still be active
today? Based on detailed research, Boardman concludes that such
groups are directing world politics in our time. As backing for his
theory, he studies a series of important articles and maps -
ranging from an 1890 edition of the satirical journal Truth to more
recent pieces from influential publications that speak for
themselves. He concludes that vast plans are in progress for a New
World Order to control and direct individuals and nations, and he
calls us to be vigilant, awake and informed.
Bang up to date with fresh cover-ups relating to Barack Obama,
Michael Jackson and Afghanistan The 100 military, medical,
religious, alien, intelligence, banking and historical cover-ups
'they' really don't want you to know about: The Military-Industrial
Complex's fomentation of war with Iraq; the construction of
concentration camps in the United States by FEMA (the Federal
Emergency Management Agency); the use of alien 'Foo Fighters' by
the Nazis and the Japanese during the Second World War; the miracle
natural drug suppressed by Big Pharma; the Israelis' responsibility
for the bombing of USS Cole; the real reason why CERN broke down;
the murder of Paul McCartney - and you didn't even know he was
dead. Entertainingly written and closely documented, The Mammoth
Book of Conspiracies uncovers the 100 most secret cover-ups in an
accessible A-Z format. It covers 95 new conspiracies even more
fiendish than those detailed in The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups by
the same author, and provides fresh revelations regarding the five
furthest-reaching conspiracies in that book, including the
assassination of JFK and 9/11. The book includes a full
bibliography and introduction.
Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In
this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the
component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in
his day. He also gives advice on tactics and discipline, and
explains why promises made under force ought not to be kept. GREAT
IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They
have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They
have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched
lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the
great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas
shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Narratives based on conspiratorial and paranoid thinking have
become increasingly prominent throughout the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. These stories range from sinister tales of
malevolent reptilian beings infiltrating our government to fears
that the forces of the New World Order rounding up patriotic
Americans and putting them into internment camps. These concerns
possess a long history in the United States and, often, have been
bolstered by revelations of real conspiracies and cover-ups by
private and public entities. From the prosaic to the outlandish,
conspiracy narratives involve aliens and Nazis, underground bases
and mind control technology. Conspiracy theories and the narratives
constructed by those who believe them present a unique window into
the history of the United States, highlighting fears both founded
and unfounded.
This is the extraordinary story of Knight and Lomas's fourteen year
quest to uncover the secret teachings buried beneath Roslin Chapel
near Edinburgh. Their quest ends with extraordinary revelations
about early human history - the origins of Christianity, of
Freemasonry and of science. They show that all were charged with a
belief in a secret cosmic code, linking, for example, the Exodus
from Egypt, the founding of Solomon's Temple and the Star of
Bethlehem. This book reveals for the first time why there were such
high expectations of a Messiah at the time of the birth of Jesus
Christ. The Book of Hiram will change everything you thought you
knew about both the Bible and Freemasonry.
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