Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] kidnapped and killed by the IRA, was involved in Green’s death, but the allegations were never confirmed. It was, as with the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, a conspiracy theory that was never proved’ (emphasis added). Fred Holroyd is those ‘rumours and allegations’.(1) Precisely what Nairac was doing we still don’t know. It is clear […]

The Men with the Guns

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] come off, neither as a thriller, nor as a roman a clef about the Kennedy assassination. But there is material of interest here for the student of conspiracy theories. For this, to my knowledge, is the first book which has included within it the basic thesis from The Gemstone File, an American samizdat which […]

SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CI0). Stiff reveals, among other things, his involvement in a campaign of bombing and assassination in Zambia and in an abortive conspiracy to assassinate Robert Mugabe during the Lancaster House talks in London. After Aden, Stiff went on to help train the police in Kenya. (‘In spite of […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] virtual network linking FOI movements globally and an ‘institutional memory’ for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Notes See for example: Justin Pope, ‘9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving’, Associated Press Online 7 August 2006; Richard Roeper, ‘Academics fill grassy knoll spot abandoned by Oliver Stone’, Chicago Sun Times 8 August 2006; Alexander […]

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 […]

Fifth Column: Plots, smoke and mirrors – managing our Muslim brothers

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] the time of the alleged airline plot in August 2006 indicated that the US considered the UK to be a ‘weak link’ in the ‘war on terror’.() Conspiracy theorists might see the extremely swift briefings on this aspect as indicating some remarkable planning in the PR management of the case. Either the US had […]

Brothers

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] before acquiring the powers of the president. This, I suggest, is was what got him killed; and I presume he was killed, if not by the same conspiracy which killed JKF, by a conspiracy emanating from those forces or interests which did not want the original killing investigated. We will probably never know the […]

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. […]

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 […]

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