Ramsay, Robin. Conspiracy Theories. Herts, England: Pocket Essentials, 2000. 95 pages. (Available from www.pocketessentials.com)

If you asked Americans to line up according to whether they believed in conspiracies, on one side you'd get a bunch of major media journalists and Ivy League professors, many of whom belong to the Council on Foreign Relations. On the other you'd see Californians, UFO abductees, and folks wearing aluminum-foil hats to keep out Big Brother's mind-control waves. The middle of the room would be deserted -- it requires thinkers who are widely-read on politics, the secret state, and current history, and have no propertied interests or lucrative careers to protect.

This middle position requires constant sifting of reams of material by very smart people, and an instinct for the probable and not-so-probable. Even those who are qualified seldom write on this topic, as it's difficult and the audience is small. All this makes Robin Ramsay's little collection of essays rather unique. He's been the editor and publisher of Lobster (www.lobster-magazine.co.uk), a journal of parapolitics and assorted book reviews, for nearly two decades (Lobster is now available on CD-ROM.) There's no hope for CFR members, but Californians still have time to sell their videos of "The X-Files" at a garage sale and subscribe to Lobster. You need it as intellectual insurance; without a doubt, our mass culture is turning up the noise in the room. Let's hope that this is inadvertent.
ISBN 1-903047-30-7

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