The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] cooperated with civilians, through so-called ‘civic action’ programs sponsored by the United States, in operations directed against the PKI and sometimes Sukarno. Thus one can legitimately suspect conspiracy in the fact that anti-PKI ‘civilian responses’ began on October I, when the army began handing out arms to Muslim students and unionists, before there was […]

What is Opus Dei?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99   Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the […]

It’s raining Lobsters

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

Readers of the fly-leaf of Steve Dorril’s new book The Silent Conspiracy will notice that he gives his address as the contact point for Lobster. More accurately, I should have written for his Lobster. Yes, as I write this in early June the word is that Dorril going to produce another magazine called… Lobster. […]

Robert Kennedy and the Middle East connection

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] the attack on USS Liberty. ‘As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy four years earlier, the official version is even more unlikely than some of the conspiracy theories.’ John Simpson, forward to Peter Hounam’s Operation Cyanide (London: Vision, 2003) The well-documented rise of the neo-cons has highlighted again a seemingly enduring feature of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘ conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a significant step for the major media of America; and only fifty-five years after the group’s inception. The Times piece adopts a more […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] the war from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and thus ensure that the President got a mandate from Congress for the attack on Iraq. The moment of conspiracy In Britain, at the 11th hour very senior MI6 and Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that […]

Digging in the Oyston archive

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] power from the Tories, Oyston was in jail, serving a six year sentence for the rape and indecent assault of a young woman. The secrets of the conspiracy that destroyed Oyston’s business and political career now lie in a huge archive gathered during the twenty years in which he was tormented by secret enemies, […]

RIP The Fourth Decade and Probe

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] covered the King family’s landmark case and its successful outcome — establishing that Dr Martin Luther King was killed, not by a lone assassin, but by a conspiracy. This story was largely ignored by the American and British media, including our own dear Guardian, whose American reportage is in a class of its own […]

The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] House of Lords 1997 intake for services to politics because LFIG played a small but important role in that process of transition to what we have today. Conspiracy theory Before telling the tale, let’s knock some of the conspiracy theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and […]

The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] a new type of unaccountable elite. This is already, if slowly, becoming the dominant force at the centre of the European project. There is no single ‘ conspiracy’ as such, just a convergence of trends towards a new consensus on how Europe can and should be governed. This crisis of authority just happens to […]

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