Welcome to Lobster, the journal that looks at the impact of the intelligence and security services on history and politics. From espionage to dirty tricks to conspiracy theories. What else is in Lobster? Check out the keywords in the box in the sidebar, right. Lobster issues are free. Over 80 issues of Lobster magazine […]
Tom Bower London: Fourth Estate, 2001, £6.99 After tackling the Paperclip Conspiracy, Klaus Barbie, Nazi medical experiments, looted cash from holocaust victims in Swiss banks and various tycoons (Rowland, Maxwell, Fayed) the latest target for a thorough Tom Bower investigation is Sir Richard Branson, though this is a tale on a smaller scale […]
[…] interview various experts. (5) Unfortunately, the remainder of the book enters into the realms of bizarre speculation, with sections headed ‘Agencies of Masonic Government’ and ‘The Bloodline Conspiracy’. The main thesis is that Diana was killed because she was being groomed as the figurehead of a campaign to usurp the House of Windsor (apparently […]
[…] conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for first time. Guardian 12th May Police threat to arrest people accommodating pickets Guardian 19th May Phone-tapping in Wales and Yorkshire. Guardian 7th April, 4th May […]
[…] vast area of human political activity is consigned to a land marked ‘Here Be Monsters’. Anything in this land is a marvel, mere fable (or rather ‘ conspiracy theory’). Vast swathes of contemporary history and current state practice simply do not exist not, at least, until the files can be opened and academic […]
[…] Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would be chucked in as well? Prominent among the author’s sources are Anthony Sutton, Gary Allen, of None Dare Call It Conspiracy fame, John Coleman, the Brit claiming to have been an MI6 officer, whose Committee of 300 – more utter tosh – is regularly quoted, and Eustace […]
[…] self-righteousness of The Iron Triangle, ‘… all you’re left with is baseless innuendo… … this book should be exposed for what it is: a compilation of recycled conspiracy theories masquerading as investigative journalism.’ Given such a view it is hardly surprising that the Carlyle Group forbade its employees from talking to Briody. However, despite […]
[…] little guy vs. Big Brother), because hackers are motivated more by malicious amusement than by genuine self-defense. More hype comes from a bizarre intersection of cyberspace with conspiracy theory: the incredible PROMIS software by Inslaw, Inc. For months I was reading accounts of how this software was revolutionary, and could track everything about everyone. […]
[…] Communist. It is difficult to lay this charge to rest once and for all because these critics really mean something much broader than the dictionary definition of conspiracy. All right, then, if “conspiracy” means that these men are aware of their interests, know each other personally, meet together privately and off the record, and […]
[…] last word on the Diana case, a triumph for reason over the forces of conspiratorial thought. It is in fact a multi-million pound demolition of the sprawling conspiracy claims of Mohamed al-Fayed. Paget does not attempt to find the cause of the Paris crash – a task for the inquest – with only the […]
