A Response to GOOD Magazine’s guide to shadowy organizations
GOOD magazine wrote a fluff piece mocking conspiracy theorists and dismissing the dangers of Bilderberg, Skull and Bones, et al. It was crap journalism and I spent a long damn time composing a response that will probably end up in a spam box. Oh well. I might as well put it here.
Hello Matt,
I have read and enjoyed your magazine before, but was greatly disappointed by the GOOD Guide: to the Shadowy Organizations That Rule the World. It is the kind of snarky, self-satisfied fluff I expect from hip youth-oriented political-esque media like MTV News or an E! election special, not GOOD. The research is fairly accurate, but the analysis is insubstantial and glossy, letting the reader remain comfortably in his or her smug liberal worldview without really considering the issues presented. This is a weak article and I’d like to discuss some of the flaws I found in it.
History is distended with conspiracies. It’s very simple: those who have some power and desire more seek allies and make clandestine plans to achieve their aims. We all understand that the Iraq War was plotted in secret by a group of political elites, don’t we? That’s a conspiracy. Iran Contra. Watergate. The USS Liberty attack. Bay of Pigs. All well documented conspiracies. Basically everything the CIA has ever done from drug smuggling to assassinations and foreign coups (see the Congressional Church Committee’s findings in 1975) originated in conspiracy. In 1934 Major General Smedley Butler—the most decorated Marine in US history and the author of War is a Racket—warned Congress of the Business Plot, a conspiracy by business elites to overthrow the government and install a fascist regime. Even the Revolutionary War was conceived by a group of men (many of whom were wealthy Freemasons as you point out) meeting in secret. Continue Reading »
apethought on July 24th 2008 in New World Order, Police State, Rants






















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