Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] quite apart from anything else – an opportunist assertion of US power in general. In closing remarks, Harvey lambasts ‘….what amounts to academic groupthink – like other conspiracy theories, neoconism develops an entire narrative around a simplistic first image (leadership driven) theory6 about the Machiavellian brilliance and 6 Frank Harvey is here assuming the […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cricketer Basil D’Oliveira, confirming with solid evidence the long-held suspicions of anti-apartheid campaigners about the malign roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet […]

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[…] Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, ‘a patriot’; in other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

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[PDF file]: […] the SIS view of Russian influence on the Scottish and Brexit campaigns through his character? There is not enough evidence to say this, so this remains a conspiracy theory at this stage – but interesting.8 6 The evidence is examined by Jon Danzig at . See also Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos at or […]

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[…] Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, ‘a patriot’; in other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] journalist described the CIA as ‘the single greatest cause of America’s world-wide unpopularity’, no less. Behind all this lay two things. The first was the idea that conspiracy was somehow a gentler way to effect political change than brute force, involving less bloodshed, at least among your own people. (‘Native’ blood, of course, was […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sure that chauvinistic Tories and crusty old English lawyers simply resent being told off by the UN. Censorship I’m also starting to take some of the ‘ conspiracy theories’ surrounding this case seriously. That worries me. I’ve always resisted this way of thinking, possibly naively. (It can be 2 See entries for 11 November […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] one Lionel Jones – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel. This was followed by a vast judicial–state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will probably never know: the CIA certainly won’t confirm it. My guess is that it isn’t, […]

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