Jim Jones and the Conspiracists

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] evil geniuses are as real as 9-11 and the Holocaust. So, too, are the bumbling cabals of politicians and intelligence operatives bent upon adventures such as Iran-Contra, Watergate and the Bay of Pigs. Would Doctor Moore hold that the Nuremberg Trials were an exercise in conspiracism? Of course not. Would she deny that Hamas, […]

A short history of Lobster

Lobster Issue

[…] events in Northern Ireland and was thus not astonished by Wallace’s claims. We called a press conference in London, put out a press release headed ‘The British Watergate’, spread some copies of Lobster 11 around the newsdesks of London and waited for the major media to pick up the lead we had developed. But […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] to influence political decisions and policies in the countries within which it operates. Thus, for example, Moon’s attempts to support Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, raise money for a variety of anti-communist causes, and influence Congressional votes through lobbying are reasonably well known; (7) and due to the extraordinary efforts […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics of sexual blackmail and sex scandals over many decades. In 2016, American voters elected as their […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] its publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies ( Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] recorded in the White House of Richard Nixon’s conversations with CIA Director of the time, Richard Helms. N.B. that this recording was made eight months before the Watergate break-ins. “What I want, what I want, Dick,” he rasped, “regarding any 6 or 7 4 understanding, regarding any information, I do not want any information […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] is ‘provoking’ Russia? Why is it so hard for some on the left to be opposed to the American empire and opposed to Russia’s expansion by invasion? Watergate at 50 A ‘two-day online conference’ marking the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took place over 9 and 10 June.35 One of the keynote speakers […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] is ‘provoking’ Russia? Why is it so hard for some on the left to be opposed to the American empire and opposed to Russia’s expansion by invasion? Watergate at 50 A ‘two-day online conference’ marking the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took place over 9 and 10 June.35 One of the keynote speakers […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Prince Charles Flexes Orwellian BBC Mind-Control Muscle, Eyes Global Great Reset & Peace Antichrist Roles’. Meanwhile, back on Dealey Plaza Researchers into the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate affair are currently involved in an exchange of ideas on-line,17 looking into connections between the two events. John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – […]

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