The ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Britain

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] an IRA ‘alliance with the London based Black Liberation Front.‘ (p22) (Special Forces is edited by a former British Army officer, Peter Harclerode.) The themes of insidious conspiracy and subversion within have always been a part of the British Right’s ideological package, but in the past few years they have become much more explicit. […]

The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] outcome was quite interesting. In the ‘Lombard’ column of the Financial Times, C. Gordon Tether wrote on May 6 1975: ‘If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.’ In a column written almost a year […]

The Oyston Affair continues: D909 and the friends of Margaret Thatcher

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] Owen Oyston against Michael Murrin, these tapes were made available to Owen Oyston.’ An action for damages McGrath’s legal aid certificate specifies ‘an action for damages for conspiracy to injure’ against the chief constable of Lancashire, the chief constable of Merseyside, Lord Blaker, Sir Robert Atkins, Michael Murrin , William Harrison and Christopher More […]

The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] of Larry O’Hara will know, this is not quite the whole story. Later in the piece Mr Matthews wrote this: ‘Lobster has suggested there is a government conspiracy to disinform the UFO community about abductions (see issue 34) partly involving an anonymous “taxi driver” who phoned Mr Victorian recently ……Any such conspiracy, were it […]

The Coors Connection; How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] senses the difference between good and bad parapolitical research hinges on this question. At its worst all the links are perceived as causal and you have vulgar conspiracy theories: ‘Its all the fault of…’. The rest of us fall somewhere short of that, and for the most part Bellant’s attribution of causality is restrained. […]

Drugs, oil and war

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] into trails leading from covert operations to political influence, and ultimately to drug airlines and mob-controlled banks, is the story that I first explored in The War Conspiracy and again (with respect to the Contras) in Cocaine Politics….essentially the same lobbies and their milieus, with oil prominent at the overt level and mob and […]

Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] After arrest at Faslane base women held for 30 hours, 4 to a cell, continuous lighting, no bedding. (Guardian 1 September – letter) Peace protesters charged with conspiracy – first such charge for 20 years. (Times 1 September) (c) and computers Home Office doubts about value of computers. There is no evidence that they […]

Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] Laos. ‘Yet the US military, using personnel from Collins Radio as a civilian cover, proceeded to build the communications infrastructure for a generalised Indochina war.’ (The Dallas Conspiracy by Peter Dale Scott, unpublished manuscript, Ch 11, p3) In late August 1963 Collins won an important sub contract from General Dynamics to install high-fidelity radio […]

Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] () the Republican Party has been the political front for a series of massive criminal conspiracies. We might say that the Republican Party is an ongoing criminal conspiracy. Gore Vidal’s quip that there is one political party in the US, with two wings, is only half true. I don’t want to sound too naive […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

Jane Affleck Here are a few more websites, focusing chiefly on the issue of electronic privacy which is currently being debated both in the U.S. and Europe. Thanks to those who have sent comments, and thanks for contributions to: Terry Hanstock, Ian Tresman and Tony Hollick. Comments and contributions are welcome: I can be contacted … Read more

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