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 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.’ Ribbentrop (1) was also convicted of two further counts, war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the evidence […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
It now looks pretty certain to me that Kennedy’s assassination was the work of a local Texas conspiracy on behalf of, and with the knowledge of, the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Most of the extant evidence for this can be seen on the web site ‘The Men on the Sixth Floor'(1) which advertises […]
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 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] intelligence operations which developed in Europe under the wing of the United States and that are now coalescing into the pan-European security agency of a new state-in-the-making. Conspiracy theorists who have managed to get past the idiocies of The Da Vinci Code will always point to Catholic involvement in the spiriting away of such […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] to Chomsky, Cockburn and Hitchens – very much the critical insider. In keeping with this stance, however, Hersh has an almost visceral aversion to anything suggesting ‘ conspiracy’ – as evinced in his take on KAL 007 – and it is this bias which leads to an ultimately flawed, if highly readable work. Like […]