The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] philosophy floating in space, they’re the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it’s advocating.8 The ‘manifesto’ should be read. *new* In brief Conspiracy theories Kit Knightly has done some interesting and serious work in what we might loosely call parapolitics. And yet there he is, propagating the notion that […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] one Lionel Jones2 – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel.3 This was followed by a vast judicial-state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will probably never know: the CIA certainly won’t confirm it. My guess is that it isn’t, […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] the Bush Administration, reportedly claims he will ‘go to his grave not knowing the answer.’1 2 The Rothschild’s war? Beyond this mainstream bewilderment, a small group of conspiracy theorists claim to have the answer: the invasion of Iraq was actually carried out at the behest of the House of Rothschild. Writing on his website […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] country since the 1970s (and the gullibility of the politicians who believed what they were told). This is downloadable as a PDF file and should be read.12 Conspiracy theorist bashing The appointment of Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, to a position as a junior minister at the Home Office produced outbursts of conspiracy theorist-bashing […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of this event. See or . 33 See ‘Covid’ and ‘Is COVID-19 man-made?’ in this column in issue 80. 34 There is a detail account of the conspiracy – no other word is apposite – by scientists to rubbish the ‘lab leak’ thesis at or . 35 10 dog – a point made clear […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Indeed he might well be ‘a crypto-Muslim terrorist’, someone in league with ‘Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, and Iran’. (p. 21) This was all part of the conspiracy culture that became ‘central to the politics of the Christian Right’. Leading the way were the ‘birthers’. The allegation that Obama had been born in Kenya […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of this event. See or . 16 See ‘Covid’ and ‘Is COVID-19 man-made?’ in this column in issue 80. 17 There is a detail account of the conspiracy – no other word is apposite – by scientists to rubbish the ‘lab leak’ thesis at or . 18 5 emotional Russian-hater heading its central foreign […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to meet Trafficante. Such associations raised questions that must have disturbed CIA insiders. Thorough investigation of any of these leads might uncover a Dallas or New Orleans conspiracy involving CIA assets, which could destroy the agency. At minimum, any serious investigation would uncover the CIA’s 47 Quoted in Anthony Summers, Conspiracy (New York: McGraw-Hill, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of this event. See or . 3 See ‘Covid’ and ‘Is COVID-19 man-made?’ in this column in issue 80. 4 There is a detail account of the conspiracy – no other word is apposite – by scientists to rubbish the ‘lab leak’ thesis at or . 5 2 American help will continue because of […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] pound wasn’t that it was falling too far – the proximate cause of the approach to the IMF in the first place – but rising too fast. Conspiracy or cock-up The events described above are clear evidence of a conspiracy between the IMF, elements within the UK and US Treasuries and various politicians. In […]

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