Those who believe that major world events result from planning are often ridiculed for believing in "conspiracy theories." Yet, when you think about it, there are really only two theories of history. Either things happen by accident, neither planned, nor caused by anybody, or they happen because they ARE planned and somebody DID cause them to happen. In reality, it is the accidental theory of history preached in the unhallowed Halls of Ivy which should be ridiculed. Otherwise, why does the American ruling class make the same mistakes over and over again?

If you believe it is all an accident or the result of mysterious and unexplainable tides of history, then you will be regarded as an "intellectual" who understands that we live in a complex world. However, if you believe that something like 32,497 consecutive mistakes over the past sixty years stretches the law of averages a bit, then you're regarded as a kook!

The conspiracy-theory label was first popularized as a pejorative term by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a propaganda program initiated in the 1960s. The program was directed at people who criticized the Warren Commission's conclusion that President Kennedy had been assassinated by a lone gunman. The propaganda campaign called on media corporations and journalists to criticize "conspiracy theorists" and raise questions about their motives and judgments.

The CIA told its media operatives to promote the lie that "parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be deliberately generated by Communist propagandists."

"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial. Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off, and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a conspiracy. The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory, and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced. We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort." - U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach memo to Bill Moyers at CBS News (Nov 25, 1963)

[1]. Katzenbach memo | http://tinyurl.com/53r3vkzn