IT’S criminally easy and tempting to equate the idea of a conspiracy theory with gossip, unverified or motivated slander, usually pertaining to a high-profile political event, not excluding assassination. Call a story a conspiracy theory and kill an unanswered question with a smirk. Karl Popper was wary of pinning conspiracy theories onto individuals or institutions that could sway outcomes. He felt theories upfronting individuals or groups masked the trigger that prompted the event in the first place.

I have my own conspiracy theory, if that is what one must call it, about the origins of the phrase and I pin it on the zealous and potent Zionist media. Technically, the phrase is ascribed to the 19th-century claim that Britain backed the Confederates in the American Civil War. But its first significantly notable use was the CIA’s attempt to debunk compelling questions about the assassination of JFK in 1963, particularly those leading to an Israeli hand. We’ll come to that. Nipping curiosity or agreeable narratives about the Israel lobby in the imperial hub of the US, which John Mearsheimer wrote a book about, remains a problem for Third World media consumers of Western-origin reports, which subtly or staunchly, knowingly or unwittingly root for the Zionist worldview.

A new potentially important theory has surfaced about the over-chewed 9/11 narrative. Renowned anti-establishment American anchor Jimmy Dore interviewed Curt Weldon last week. The former 10-term Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania claimed new revelations into the affair. Weldon has spent decades claiming that a........

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