Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] recent survey carried out by CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) indicates that libraries are experiencing ‘increased police and security services activity.’(17) It’s a conspiracy…. ‘Our findings call into question current questioning about the function of conspiracy theories. If……are a means to provide explanations for uncertain events, or are a response […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] 1990 such a document would have been about Soviet disinformation campaigns; and this one begins with some well known examples of Soviet disinformation before proceeding to attack conspiracy theories. It names only three current sources of conspiracy theories: the two websites, Rense.com and Conspiracy Planet, and ‘Australian private investigator Joe Vialls, who died in […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] within a fortnight had over 2 Mbs of data – more than could be comfortably filed, let alone digested. And it has continued growing since. ‘9-11 + conspiracy’ on Google will now produce getting on for 6 million hits. By comparison, the critical information in the JFK case appeared in dribs and drabs over […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] Henderson’s version of what happened next; this is his view of what he thinks is an enormous scandal: ‘We have a Prime Minister who engaged in a conspiracy with his wife, a QC, to pervert the course of justice, a Prime Minister who engaged in a conspiracy to criminally libel me and a Prime […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for some reason) about 9-11 and its aftermath was a sorry collection of conspiracy theories and […]