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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The True Story of the Bilderberg Group

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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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