Still hazy after all these years

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 […]

Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] of ideas have become a farce. The Left has no equal voice, no equal access to the mass media and their public facilities – not because a conspiracy excludes it, but because, in good old capitalist fashion, it does not have the required purchasing power. Notes FCO (2005) Westminster Foundation for Democracy, ‘Working for […]

Popular Alienation

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] little later.) This is probably why I like it: that’s the stuff I grew up on. But the UK underground press didn’t have Steamshovel‘s huge input of conspiracy theories. Steamshovel also has the faults as well as the virtues of the UK underground press. Oz and IT and the rest were fascinating but hardly […]

People

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] a South African Conservative MP, elected Honourary President of the renamed Western Goals Institute in February 1992, was arrested in April for his alleged part in a conspiracy to assassinate the ANC leader Chris Harni (Independent, 19 April, 1993) and later convicted of the murder. The Guardian (21 April) reported that Derby-Lewis ran an […]

The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US- European Relations (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] a New Overt Publication, Effectively American-Oriented, on the Cultural Front’, 7th December 1947, p. 4. Interview with Melvin Lasky, Berlin, April 3rd 1999. Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy, Free Press, New York, 1989, p. 16. Pierre Grémion, Intelligence de L’Anticommunisme, Fayard, Paris, 1995, p.93. Speech to the Anglo-American Press Club, February 1952, CCF Archive […]

Sources

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 42: Contents

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] been difficult at times not to become absorbed in the information torrent on the Internet which that event has generated. It has been fascinating watching the American conspiracy buffs going to work on the subject and I have saved large amounts of that torrent with the idea that I will one day write something […]

America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] clearly the 80 pro-Israel groups in the US, of which the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is the biggest and best organised. This is not a conspiracy (it doesn’t have to be under the US constitution) and is openly influential. AIPAC and its allies allocate campaign funding for candidates at all levels of […]

House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] disarmament was rubbished at home and in the Kremlin (where there was Soviet arms lobby nearly as powerful as the one in the US). The ‘October Surprise’ conspiracy between the Republican Party and the Iranian regime was merely the final nail in a political coffin which had been carefully constructed by the ‘new cold […]

Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] made by the higher management at the BBC to shut them up; the Peter Bessell version of events, the perambulations of Norman Scott – and the actual conspiracy to murder him. But in ignoring the psy-ops operations Freeman has served up an interesting snack rather than a main course. There is one absolutely wonderful […]

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