Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] the effects of America’s anti-Soviet obsession on Italian politics and what stemmed from it: corruption of all institutions, including the Catholic Church; drugs, violence, terrorism and assassination; conspiracy, literally, as normal politics; disinformation by the barrow-load. This book is full of incredible stories, leads, hints and allegations across 30 years of post-WW2 history. No […]
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 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 6 (1984) £££
[…] report on the police use of computers, published by the GLC. For details see Publications. RR 007 Murray Sayles’ long apologia for the official version – “a conspiracy of circumstances” – in the Sunday Times (May 20th and 27th 1984). More interesting is the Defence Attache (June) piece by the pseudonymous P.Q. Mann, which […]
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) £££
[…] democracy, that a 1999 investigation by the Home Office’s chief historian found that in the case of the Zinoviev letter affair there was ‘no evidence of a conspiracy in the institutional sense.’ That is to say, MI6 as an organisation hadn’t perverted the course of the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers […]
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 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 […]
