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, […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] have identified me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] but by the Defense Secretary. In other words, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had to personally approve any action.(7) These items alone make the case of the 9-11 conspiracy theorists look plausible. On the World Socialist Web site, Patrick Martin concludes that the evidence suggests that the Bush administration was expecting al Qaeda to hijack […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] and beliefs of reporters and pundits mirrors that of the political and military establishment. The crucial propaganda function of the press was achieved not through any mass conspiracy to deceive the public but through ‘an ideology of news reporting that incorporates a set of routines, constraint, expectations – and myths.’ (p.200) Let a journalist […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald Sutherland in the most risible scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] contractor to the United States government in numerous projects.’ Even though Halliburton settled out of court, Cheney’s spokeswoman Juleanna Weiss saw it as a different kind of conspiracy altogether, saying, ‘The voters are bound to question the timing of this investigation. The timing is suspicious, given the Clinton-Gore administration’s proclivity to manipulate the Justice […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] research papers in 1941/1942. Bergstresser later worked in the OSS. There is an interesting chapter on the life and work of Puharich in the otherwise unfathomable Stargate Conspiracy by Picknett & Prince (London, 1999). Bouverie (née Astor) was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, the owner of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York […]