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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 19) May 1990 Last| Contents| Next Issue 19 Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay 'The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.' Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas' books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 's Timewatch series. (Discussed in Lobster 20) Like most of his comments on that programme, this just isn't true. Most media stars who die 'unexpectedly and dramatically' do so without conspiracy theories. Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon is a long catalogue of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 444 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-09.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 24) December 1992 Last| Contents| Next Issue 24 The Big C: Further notes on 'conspiracy'Definitions? Or Whoops! A paradigm An American magazine called Mondo 2000 ran an amusing piece called 'The Conspiracy Top Ten'. In it 'Zarkov' offered this definition: 'Conspiracies may be better understood as organizations pursuing their own ends, who desire no publicity as to their true objectives and methods.' Which sounds interesting at first then dissolves into mush. This was in the preface to an interview with Jonathan Vankin, author of what sounds like a kind of compendium of conspiracies and conspiracy theories, Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes: Political ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 296 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-03.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 29) June 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 29 'Conspiracy Theories' and Clandestine Politics Jeffrey M. Bale See note(1) Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort of qualifications, it still manages to transcend the boundaries of acceptable discourse and violate unspoken academic taboos. The idea that particular groups of people meet together secretly or in private to plan various courses ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 296 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-05.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 8) June 1985 Last| Contents| Next Issue 8 Behind right-wing conspiracy theories Part 1 The world of ultra-right conspiracy theory is of interest to researchers into clandestinism for 3 reasons. First, because critics of research into clandestinism frequently attempt to bracket it together with ultra-right believers in The Protocols of Zion and similar fantasies.(1 ); secondly because the ultra-rightists, in the last decade, have been showing an interest in some bodies of real interest to researchers, such as the Council on Foreign Relations; and, thirdly, because some versions of ultra-right conspiracy theory have been not without influence in intelligence and government circles. When one attempts ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 288 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-01.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 30 Conspiracy theories are go! Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO's? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable- at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media's discovery of the militias. Only in America would the crazy conspiracy theorists be armed to the teeth and- it is said- actually planning to fight the Illuminati! Any minute now there will anti-Illuminati terrorism in the USA; the FBI will announce the creation of an Illuminati ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 287 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-11.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 46 Conspiracy: Plots, Lies and Cover-ups Richard M Bennett London: Virgin Books, 2003 £20 hardback This is 350 pages of summaries of political and historical conspiracies. It starts in 2330 BC but the first 2007 years take up only 84 pages. The content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: Gehlen, Roswell, Operation Paperclip, the murder of Ghandi; and Watergate, Littlejohn, Kincora, Allende; and AIDS conspiracy, Iran-Contra conspiracy, Hilda Murrel, Get Scargill, assassination of Mrs Ghandi. And ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 267 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-42.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 57) Summer 2009 Last| Contents| Next Issue 57 Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History David Aaronovitch London: Jonathan Cape, £17.99, h/b In his introduction Aaronovitch tells us he became interested in conspiracy theories when someone he was working with introduced him to the 'they-didn't-go-to-the-moon' theory; and this offended his 'sense of plausibility'. He's right: we all have a kind of plausibility threshold, beyond which a proposition about the world has to get before our brains will take it seriously. And thus, he tells us, about the moon theory: 'Given the imbalance in probabilities I was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 235 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-46.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 50) Winter 2005/6 Last| Contents| Next Issue 50 The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories James McConnachie and Robin Tudge, London, New York: Rough Guide Ltd (Penguin Books), 2005, p/b £9.99/ $14.99 (US)/ $22.99 (Can) Richard Alexander This chunky paperback is intended to give readers an introduction to the world of conspiracies and the theories around them, as opposed to works which discuss conspiracy theories as a topic in their own right. It takes over 80 topics, divided into themes such as assassin ations, mega-conspiracies, religion, USA, calamities and so forth, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 228 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-55b.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 23) June 1992 Last| Contents| Next Issue 23 Stalker, Conspiracy? Stephen Dorril It is impossible to make an omlette without breaking eggs.-- James Anderton on anti-terrorism My anger in this case stemmed from the denial that things had gone wrong, that no eggs were broken even though the omlette was there to see.-- John Stalker David Murphy, The Stalker Affair and the Press, Unwin Hyman, 1991 John Stalker, Stalker, Penguin, 1988 Kevin Taylor, The Poisoned Tree, Pan, 1991. Peter Taylor, Stalker: The Search for The Truth, Faber and Faber, 1987. I had David Murphy's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 219 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 Paranoia is what the other guy has Dan Hind The discussion of conspiracy in the mainstream media tends towards a very specific formula. The writer first notes with shock and disappointment the growing popularity of conspiracy theories and then goes on to provide explanations for this new popularity. This explanation almost always assumes that these theories about the 'true' nature of social reality exist to satisfy some psychological need in their audience. Perhaps in the absence of religion we have only our paranoia for comfort. Or perhaps fundamentalist religion encourages a conspiratorial world-view complete with dark forces and an embattled humanity. Social scientists suggest ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 212 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-09.htm
