WATCH: Truth At Last: The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Released last year, to mark the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination, James Corbett’s documentary examines King’s attempt to reconcile the civil rights and anti-war movements of the late 1960s,...
We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth
As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole. Across the country – in response to the King Holiday...
“Conspiracy theories” believed by “significant minority”
A revealing observation is contained in a recent UK government report UK FOREIGN POLICY IN A SHIFTING WORLD ORDER (published December 2018) and brought to our attention on Twitter....
In Defense of ‘Conspiracy Theories’
Max Parry To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.” John Berger, Ways of Seeing This November 22nd marked fifty-five years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy....
“People hold opinions I don’t share, we should stop them.”
Kit Knightly Sixty percent of us believe in “conspiracy theories”, and we shouldn’t. At least according to Hugo Drochon, Professor of Politics at Nottingham University. He doesn’t raise the...
The 9/11 anniversary: Conspiracy theory or critical thinking?
Graeme MacQueen On the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that let loose so much international violence, the public has a right to ask what really happened on that...
Conspiracies Are Not All Theoretical
Alison Broinowski Before the 2016 election, candidate Donald Trump told voters he would ‘find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.’ His promise may turn out to...
Thanksgiving for JFK
by Edward Curtin If he had lived, President John F. Kennedy would have been 100 years old this year. At Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, his family would be raising a...
JFK at 100: The War on Our Heroes Part 2
In the first half of this article, published on JFK's centenary, I discussed the general degradation of the intellectual and moral character of figurehead politicians,...
"Conspiracies don't happen….here."
The US alphabet agencies recently released some formerly classified files on JFK. There's nothing much in them, because well...why would there be? Supposing the CIA were complicit, who's going...
9/11: How it costs you friends
Harvey Burgess I recently had an upsetting exchange with a good friend, brought about by my assertion that: “The Americans did 9-11 to themselves.” My remark brought to an...
Incontrovertible – the “truth” about 9/11
Philip Roddis As part of our “9/11 fifteen years on” series, Roddis tells us why 9/11 “conspiracy theories” tend to be “pants” Dylan Avery made four versions of Loose...
