In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] ‘accident’), in October 1983. As far as we are aware there is as yet no detailed study of the event, nor any plausible explanation of it. U.S. conspiracy buffs, accustomed to scenarios in which liberals/leftists – Kennedys, King, Panthers – are assassinated by the right-wing, seem to be both confused by, and disinterested in, […]

This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] stealth and lying. Young, of course, can’t quite bring himself to write of lying and he gives us a variety of euphemisms. ‘deceptive reassurance’ (p. 293) ‘ conspiracy of silence’ (p. 251) ‘near-duplicity’ (p. 249) ‘disguising’ (p. 248) ‘Ministers did not lie but they avoided telling the whole truth.'(p. 247) ‘Disguising’, for example, comes […]

House of Bush, House of Saud

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] concrete evidence that Saudi royals sponsor terrorism, he repeats Posner’s claim. Unger also refers to Edward James Epstein’s website, but sadly doesn’t repeat my favourite Bush I conspiracy anecdote – the one about the FBI memo in which ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency’ denounced a Republican (!) political rival, for JFK-assassination-related […]

Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] state department under his control at the National Security Council to by-pass both State and the CIA. If the Watergate affair was, as some believe, an anti-Nixon conspiracy by the CIA, in my view this is a good candidate for the reason behind it; it was aimed at undermining Kissinger by undermining Nixon. One […]

The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] 270) Why SIS management went to the lengths they did to get rid of him is entirely unclear. On Tomlinson’s account it is some kind of petty conspiracy, a personality clash. If I had to guess I would look here, at his resistance to playing the new game of meeting spurious targets. The introduction […]

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 […]

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?

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 […]

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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