[…] their arguments may well be wrong. (p. 108) Well hell, details of anyone’s arguments ‘may well be wrong’. That’s almost praising with faint damns *new* Cock-up? No, conspiracy. Back to Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, what used to be the beating heart of the US establishment. There is a […]
[…] At or 13 5 Project (BAP)14 which was first written about by Tom Easton in 1997 in Lobster 33. This ‘official’ account notes that what it calls conspiracy theories about the organisation’s origins first began in Lobster, which it describes as ‘an obscure, anti-American news-sheet’. Obscure? Yes. Anti-American? No. Anti-American foreign policy and anti-British […]
[…] (almost certainly the latter). And no MI5 people had been involved in ‘any attempt to destabilise the government’. But burglary, leaking official material, planting disinformation and other conspiracy is not denied. At another level, was there an inquiry at all? Wallace, Holroyd and Wright were not interviewed by the Duff inquiry.2 It apparently looked […]
[…] to do so but compromised and joined the Legion of Frontiersmen, a part-time military Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, […]
[PDF file]: […] via the ballot box – Labour received 37.1% of the votes in the February 1974 election and the Communist Party 0.1% – mattered not.(55) A secret communist conspiracy was, by definition, secret. Tony Benn was the focus of the anxieties at parliamentary level. In this period he was being surveilled, bugged, wire-tapped, harassed and […]
[PDF file]: […] are using Safari which sometimes doesn’t ‘read’ it. Try another browser, eg Chrome. 3 Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, […]
[…] deal was the original ‘October surprise’. me, I don’t know which one, that Gemstones are forever The first thing I wrote was a critique of an American conspiracy theory called the Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File which was circulating in pamphlet form in the UK in 1976/7.28 Gemstone was the first conspiracy theory […]
[PDF file]: […] the Justice Department Dragon and securing his re-election as King on the Land of the Free’s Choosing Day! The Department of Justice (DOJ) is one of Patel’s conspiracy obsessions. And we can be absolutely confident that Trump has read and really enjoyed these cretinous contributions to the corruption of children’s literature: he has publicly […]
[…] the Justice Department Dragon and securing his re-election as King on the Land of the Free’s Choosing Day! The Department of Justice (DOJ) is one of Patel’s conspiracy obsessions. And we can be absolutely confident that Trump has read and really enjoyed these cretinous contributions to the corruption of children’s literature: he has publicly […]
[PDF file]: […] Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Their volume is worth noticing if only for demonstrating how wholly compromised the American Christian Right is and how dangerously irrational and conspiracy theory-based their ‘thinking’ is.1 But what of David Frum? This is his second book on Trump, the sequel to his Trumpocracy (reviewed in Lobster 772). But […]
