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 […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] dates them back to ‘ancient times’, whatever that means. However, even if we go back only as far as the 18th century, how would such a ramified conspiracy communicate when the fastest transport was horse which could do what, 20-30 miles a day at most? What did the messages sent between members of the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark London: Atlantic Books, 2007, £25, h/b This is not an area I have any expertise in and I am hardly competent to review this. But I found this big (500 pages), massively-documented book an absolutely riveting read. The […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] be said that I am hardly the first to suggest that the Jonestown massacre was the outcome of someone’s secret machinations. The affair is inherently mysterious, and conspiracy theories abound – the most prominent among them that ‘Jonestown’ was a CIA mind-control experiment. The view has been put forward in a number of venues. […]