No smoke without fire?

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] British state’. No evidence has been produced to support this. In fact the particular claims made by Foot about Bryn Estyn actually fit quite neatly into a conspiracy theory held by many on the left: that Freemasons have undue power and exercise much of it through the establishment and, in particular, the official structures […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] now has the best mail order book list in the UK for things conspiratorial, Masonic, oligarchic, elite-wise etc. Who else in the UK offers Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robison (originally printed 1798) at 10, Nesta Webster’s best known three books, and Who Are The Trilaterals? by KOP editor, Ronald King, at 0.15p? […]

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 View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] against Larry O’Hara has reached new depths. In the March issue they published his picture and described where they think he works and lives. Is this not conspiracy to cause actual bodily harm (or worse) to O’Hara? Since Larry will ignore the threat, what next for Searchlight? Larry’s address? A map? The London Left […]

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 […]

Bank-havens: Exposures Of The Rich

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

As a recent TV programme (James Bellini’s ‘The Polite Conspiracy’ 4th April 1984 BBC2) made clear, the rich have devised some artful ways of avoiding tax. Of course they also have a government committed to drastically reducing their tax ‘burden’ (e.g. Nigel Lawson’s abolition of investment income surcharge, formerly payable on high unearned incomes). […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] is new to me and, perhaps, to most Lobster readers. It is worthy of note as a splendid example of that relatively rare species, the British global conspiracy theory. Quite what Stuart’s ‘theory’ is, however, is less than clear. He writes variously of ‘International Finance-power capitalism”, “One World Monopolists”, “a World Federalist State”, the […]

Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] with the seriousness it deserved. Information which has been collected since then means that its recent publication will make it an important lead in untangling the undoubted conspiracy formed around Agca’s “confessions”. The tale begins in 1981 when Ciro Cirillo, the Christian Democrat leader in Naples was kidnapped by the Red Brigades. Cirillo was […]

Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] Oswald?’, this appeared: ‘According to the Warren Commission, the man who killed John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a psychotic, acting alone. Not so, according to tireless conspiracy theorists, who speculate that Oswald, who had visited Moscow, was a K.G.B. “asset” in Dallas.’ Apart from Edward J. Epstein, lighting another candle at the shrine […]

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 […]

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