The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2001

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] essays you can follow Vidal on the final stage of his journey from being a kind of patrician, cynical, left-liberal out into parapolitics and even into American conspiracy theory culture. ‘Revisionist historian’ has come to mean people who want to deny the reality of Hitler’s attempt to exterminate the Jews in Europe. Before this […]

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. […]

Decoding Edward Jay Epstein’s ‘LEGEND’

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] espionage and subversion in the United States. Indeed, the concern has been turned inside out; the real threat – according to the fashionable mythology – was a conspiracy on the part of the vicious power structure using the myth of a Communist menace to justify its aggressive designs abroad and the squelching of opposition […]

Last Talons of the Eagle

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] Talons of the Eagle. See Tom Bower, Blind Eye to Murder – Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, a Pledge Betrayed (1981) and The Paperclip Conspiracy (1984) and Christopher Simpson, Blowback – America’s Recruitment of Nazis and its Effects on the Cold War (1988) Myrha – who describes himself as ex-US Marine […]

Cyberculture: Counterconspiracy

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Cyberculture: Counter conspiracy – A Steamshovel Web Reader Ed. Kenn Thomas Vol 1. The Book Tree, California, 1999 ISBN 1-58509-125-1 $16.95 from Flatland Vol 2. The Book Tree, California, 1999 ISBN 1-58509-126-X $13.95 from Flatland   Two volumes of material which originally appeared on the Steamshovel Web site: a splendid jumble of conspiracy theories, […]

The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] Waggoner Carr even provided the Warren Commission with Oswald’s FBI employee number and monthly salary. (12) It seems reasonable to speculate that the FBI heard of a conspiracy to kill the President centring on ultra-rightist elements in New Orleans, possibly using Mafia contract killers. (13) So Oswald is infiltrated into the group, to inform […]

007: a new theory

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

The Last Flight of 007 L. Fletcher Prouty, (Gallery May 1985) The flight of KAL 007: Evidence of Conspiracy R.B.Cutler, (Cutler Publications, US 1985) “At one stage it seemed probable that the Freeze movement would halt the (MX) project altogether; only the providential shooting-down of the Korean airliner, KAL007, enabled Reagan to push his […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] book, The Socialist International at Gunpoint, (Picton Publishing, Chippenham, 1988) is the reproduction of a MARA report on the Socialist International, portraying it as a global socialist conspiracy. At one level this MARA report is absurd: the idea of the Socialist International meaning anything is just funny. But the level of ignorance on the […]

The View from the Bridge

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 […]

Coroner to the Stars

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] go into the interview in Lobster 7 was why so little work had been done on the Robert Kennedy assassination. After all, at first glance, the ‘ conspiracy angle’ was quite plain: the autopsy proved – without qualification – that Sirhan Sirhan didn’t (couldn’t have) fired the shots which killed Robert Kennedy. Scott’s answer […]

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