I saw it on Saturday in Whole Foods and flipped through it. I'm pretty such it's not meant to be a satire publication.
Where else would you be likely to find articles like "Tuesday Weld: High Priestess of the Illuminati?" (part of the evidence: one of the characters on The Addams Family comedy series of back when was named "Wednesday"), or "Mothman: Angel of Conspiracy?".
What do you mean, who is Mothman? Surely you jest! This is a statue of him:
Paranoia magazine has its own Web site, of course. It doesn't seem to have the text of the articles from the current issue as of this writing. But what would a conspiracy theory Web site be without some Kennedy assassination features? Like The Kennedy Assassination and the Current Political Moment by Joan Mellen (u.d., 2007; accessed 04/12/08).This kind of thing is so much a part of our intellectual landscape that it's hard not to be occasionally amused by some of it. But I'm probably the only person in the US who doesn't believe that JFK had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, and one of the few who believe the "single assassin" theory (Oswald, in the Book Depository, with the rifle).
This Illuminati conspiracy theory is probably the ur-conspiracy theory for the United States. It was a key piece of the dogma of the Anti-Masonic Party and the somewhat later Know-Nothing Party in the first half of the 19th century. Radical cleric Pat Robertson made the Illuminati conspiracy a central feature in his anti-Semitic theory of history in his books The New World Order (1991) and The Turning Tide (1993).
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