Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like IRD’s […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] client that their vote has been misrepresented.’ Indeed, the astonishing thing about fiddling an election is how many people won’t lift a finger to prevent it. A conspiracy of silence In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] is with individual monitoring.’ They rather miss the whole point. At least some of their colleagues are more honest when they direct their ire at the Anglo-American conspiracy to undermine honest, continental business values. They know where their interests lie. For NSA buffs there is much in Bamford’s book to recommend it, but it […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] Friends from Birmingham politics were warning me of this radicalism and its potential for violence in the late 1990s – and added that there was a collusive conspiracy of silence between local media and the authorities to down play incidents for fear of ‘upsetting race relations’. The ‘hawks’ therefore have a point that ‘doves’ […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] a conclusion that, even if SOG did spark the full-blown phase of the Vietnam War, such a result was not intended. Moreover, it now appears that any conspiracy theory cuts two ways. If SOG was riddled with untrustworthy, local employees right from the start, then Hanoi may have known what was coming in advance […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] committee which organised the killing and incorporates some of the research which had been done at that time into the assassination. It suggests a local Mafia-oil-right wing conspiracy, hints at H. L. Hunt’s involvement and asserts that the Minutemen, a right-wing group of the period, and the Dallas police, were involved – but offers […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Business Age, and striking though they were, did not include any reliable evidence.) He is also occasionally inclined to assume that chronology is causation. The vast state conspiracy he describes against the smaller firms involved in the arming of Iraq, complete with murders, blackmail, and corruption in almost every government department, is probably true. […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] they couldn’t persuade a British jury to convict a bunch of foreigners with Arab-sounding names; a plot so feeble the police were reduced to calling it a conspiracy to cause…… panic! (9) The comic highlight for me was the TV pictures of police or army personnel entering the house in full Chemical and Biological […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] yes, indirectly it led to a major movie, Oliver Stone’s JFK. But Holland tries to make the Garrison/Permindex material the kind of inner motor of the JFK conspiracy research activity since 1968; and this is just baloney. Holland cannot resist trying to puff up his thesis: ‘Garrison’s real legacy was not his investigation, but […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] length. Watt certainly knows something of the group’s role in 20th century history, and their omission in this new book may reflect what Quigley perceived as a conspiracy of silence on the group’s activities. What is positive in Watt’s perspective is the focus on the role of concrete individuals. When Ross, in his book […]
