Fire Magic: Hi-jack at Mogadishu

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] report,(1) tracked her down (after the publication of this book) and, unannounced, turned up at her front door. Last November she was extradited to Germany to face conspiracy to murder charges arising from the hijack, but not before Davies had reportedly sewn up a deal for a book and film in collaboration with her. […]

A (very) brief history of Christian politics in the United States

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] the Communist Chinese and whom they described as the first casualty of the Cold War. The Birchers claimed that America was being undermined by a secret communist conspiracy. They stood for resistance to collectivism and for the freedom of the individual. Writing in 1970 the founder of the society, Robert Welsh, declared that ‘we […]

Web update

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] necessity, to charges under the OSA 1989. Times law report http://cryptome.org/hmg-v-shayler3.htm Free Samar and Jawad http://www.freesaj.org.uk Samar Alami and Jawad Botmeh were convicted in Dec 1996 of conspiracy in relation to the 1994 London bombings of the Israeli Embassy and Balfour House and both were sentenced to 20 years. ‘Freedom and Justice for Samar […]

The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] a member of the Bush family should be gift-wrapped in the crap he bequeathed. Some of the entanglements of the Bush family have been presented as a conspiracy – a hidden and mysterious plot at the apparent centre of which lies the Bush alma mater Yale University’s Skull and Bones society – a variation […]

Official: CIA does mean Cocaine Importing Agency after all

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] of what the Service did. In part, this was to compensate for the image that had prevailed before. It was being portrayed as if it were run by fascist swine, which wasn’t the case.’ Much of this prevailing imagery, was, she believes, put about in the 1980s by ‘communist sympathisers posing as conspiracy theorists’. Huh?

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping up on a position not so very dissimilar to the kinds of conspiracy theories popular during ‘roll-back’s’ hey-day, in the early 1950s: “Let us, for the sake of argument accept the explanations for our giving aid to Mozambique. Perhaps […]

Everything You Know is Wrong: the Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] much, if any, major media exposure; but ‘what’s really happening’ is a dumb slogan. It is an interesting group: from Robert Sterling and Jonathan Vankin on the conspiracy theory-for-the-hell-of-it wing to Howard Zinn via William Blum, to the famous critic of psychiatry, Thomas Szasz, critics of globalisation Noreena Hertz and Greg Palast – Palast […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] between. As far as it goes it is quite interesting, initially rather amusing, to read the lunatic opinions of the far-right on almost everything from the Global Conspiracy to fluoride. But by about page 40 the succession of dotty prophets gets wearisome. The one section worth photocopying, perhaps, is that on the far-right’s reactions […]

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. […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] Psy-Op. These documents are on the Web at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9923/MJ12.html/ What Jack told Marilyn? I’d hate to be thought to be encouraging the crazier end of the UFO conspiracy world but among the mountains of documents in Armen Victorian’s possession is a purported 1962 CIA document reporting the results of phone-taps of conversations between the […]

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