Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] within the US intelligence community there is institutional knowledge of whodunit,4 we may also assume that nothing will be left on paper which points towards the assassination conspiracy (if anything was put there in the first place). Therefore, fascinating though the official paper trail is at some level, it This essay reworks some of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] address book of Clay Shaw, a gay New Orleans businessman who had been a contact of the CIA,8 who was tried for – and acquitted of – conspiracy to assassinate JFK by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. This is from the essay on Shaw’s address book by Anthony Edward Weeks which appeared in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] was ordered to Dallas to deliver forged Secret Service credentials and was subsequently swept up by police as one of the tramps. Despite gaining widespread attention among conspiracy researchers and publishing a memoir detailing his story, his account was entirely debunked by the physical evidence and the emergence of the 1963 booking sheets. The […]

finklestein 1976

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] Defenders of the Warren Commission – and yes, there are still a few – cite the Soviet use of Joesten in propagating the early theories about a conspiracy as if KGB officer Oleg Kalugin wrote in his memoir Spymaster: ‘he had close ties to the Soviet government and the KGB, which secretly kept his […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] Defenders of the Warren Commission – and yes, there are still a few – cite the Soviet use of Joesten in propagating the early theories about a conspiracy as if this in some way counters the research. But who cares? Of course the Soviets tried to stir the pot. But the real work was […]

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] MacLean Michigan (USA): Scribe Publishing, 2017, £10.99 Bartholomew Steer This book ticks a lot of boxes. First, it does not shrink from acknowledging the existence of a conspiracy working against the interests of the ordinary folk. That it centres on neo-liberal economic theories and the money of – amongst others – the Koch brothers […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 judicialstate 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 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, […]

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