Origins of the Vigilant State. Honeytrap. A Putney Plot

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] forthright and astute comments on the Labour Party’s failure to take all this on board in Time Out (15 April 1987). Vague No 18/19 Programming Phenomena and Conspiracy Theory Not really a book, but not a magazine either, this is 147 A4 pages of borrowed, ripped-off articles, graphic and assorted fragments on everything from […]

The Syndicate

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] coming World Government Nicholas Hagger New Alresford (Hampshire), John Hunt Publishing, 2004, pb, £11.99   Another massive reworking of the basic elements of the post-WW2 American-oriented global conspiracy theory: Rothschild, Quigley, Fabians, CFR, Bilderberg, Masons etc. Hagger makes much of Bilderberg (perhaps simply because there is so much material to use) and – his […]

Trick or Treason: the October Surprise Mystery

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] a dissenting voice trying to operate within mainstream American media. Yep, despite the conspiracy-laden history of American since 1963 — hell’s teeth, U.S. domestic political history is conspiracy — the accusation of ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still the main weapon of intellectual coercion among the Higher Media. Chasing the story the U.S. government least wanted […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] 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 […]

Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Collection

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who took acid, read Leary, Reich, Lilly, Castaneda et al in […]

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 […]

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, […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] 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 […]

Someone would have talked

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] raises what Hancock calls ‘a very uncomfortable question…..Is there any possible way in which the vice-President of the United States could somehow have become influenced by a conspiracy?’ (p 308; emphases added). He thinks there is and tells the Bobby Baker story, pointing out that LBJ’s closest aide Baker and a lobbyist friend of […]

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