The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed by a section of the British spooks, believed that the Labour Party and the unions were a Communist conspiracy and were thus ‘a legitimate target’. Oborne’s idea of ‘political’ simply does not encompass activities by the state, let alone the secret state. In one sense […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] bring back to London when their Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan’s IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. […]

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] notes) which contains a lot of new material. Black is that unusual creature, an academic historian who has included Bilderberg in his account. AIDS Remember all the conspiracy theories claiming that the AIDS virus had been a US military experiment? This seemed to have been dealt with when word emerged from the former Soviet […]

From Bevan to Blair: 50 years reporting from the political front line

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] the union leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, had been promoted to the status of the front men for a Soviet revolution in the UK in the conspiracy theories of a faction of the British spooks which had Thatcher’s ear at the time. If Scanlon-Jones were suspect, so were their associates; and Goodman was […]

Splinter Factor

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] other hand, the purges in this period were the result of the ‘paranoid tendencies’ of Stalin and ‘the Centre’ which constructed a vast but wholly imaginary American conspiracy round the activities of a fellow-travelling American Quaker, Noel Field, who had been in (innocent) contact with many leading figures in the Soviet bloc. (KGB: the […]

A Century of War: Anglo-American oil politics and the new world order

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] is good, offering unlimited energy to mankind. Those who oppose nuclear power are luddites at best; at worst they herald the ‘new dark ages’. Everything is a conspiracy. Normal politics is entirely a sham; reality is faked for the moronic citizen-voters. (And, of course, only LaRouche has the key to unlock the mystery.) () […]

People

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] a South African Conservative MP, elected Honourary President of the renamed Western Goals Institute in February 1992, was arrested in April for his alleged part in a conspiracy to assassinate the ANC leader Chris Harni (Independent, 19 April, 1993) and later convicted of the murder. The Guardian (21 April) reported that Derby-Lewis ran an […]

Notes from the Borderland, no. 4

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] other areas. These pages contain much new material and are being read and taken seriously by the anti-EU groups in this country. For those who enjoy the conspiracy theorising about spookery for which Larry is also known, he has another go at journalists in this issue – with the usual disastrous results, in my […]

A short history of Lobster

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[…] a cartoon strip ‘The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File’, written by Stephanie Caruana (based on a much longer work by Bruce Roberts). It was the first conspiracy theory I had ever read and I was very struck by it. So I went into Hull University library and began checking its central claims. They […]

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Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] planes for covert missions, discussion of Oklahoma, an FBI agent provocateur, and an essay by Professor Carrie Foster of the Coalition on Political Assassinations Speakers Bureau, ‘ Conspiracy is as American as Apple pie’. Must be something in the water up there in the North-west. Good stuff, from PO Box 1327 Tualatin, Oregon 97062, […]

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