View from the bridge

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[…] which kicked much of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ JFK conspiracy theory: Leroy Fletcher Prouty. But he omits the fact the Prouty had been a Colonel in the USAF and liaison with the CIA.5 File under ‘All […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] which kicked much of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ JFK conspiracy theory: Leroy Fletcher Prouty. But he omits the fact the Prouty had been a Colonel in the USAF and liaison with the CIA.5 File under ‘All […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] behavior that suggest he may have had some prior knowledge or guilty knowledge. Going beyond that and connecting the dots to a totally initiated and organized Johnson conspiracy is something else entirely.’14 As far as I am aware, Mr Hancock’s excellent work on the material did not interest any other major researcher; and he […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] In 2015, Kit Daniels, a reporter with Alex Jones’ Infowars, did a podcast which claimed the ‘Bilderberg Group orchestrated the 1973 Oil Crisis.’16 The consensus among some conspiracy researchers is that these allegations should be treated as proven. It is the contention of this paper, however, that Engdahl’s claims about Bilderberg and the 1973 […]

View from

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[…] Back to paper! *new* MAHA? RFK Jnr certainly has fallen among the American anti-vaxxers as I noted a while back;16 and he is prone to dumb public conspiracy theorising.17 But how serious he is about his MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) agenda is still unclear. In The Observer on 27 July Andrew Gumbel wrote: […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] of support was based on his prospects of winning: the core group of ‘Blairites’, neo-cons within the parliamentary Labour Party, was never Alex Proud, ‘Perhaps the world’s conspiracy theorists have been right all along’ 15 They had seen it on the Net, of course. See . 16 17 On which see Simon Matthews, ‘The […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] prior conclusion. And what is mind-spatter? Shenon’s book is an attempt to ‘understand the mindspatter of the report ’ continues Dean. Further, ‘Days after the killing, as conspiracy theories were already beginning to swarm regarding plots by the Cuban and Soviet governments, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to nip them in the bud’ and thus […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] vague ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’, to which many governments could pay lip service but none will use as a guide to current policies. The Great Reset conspiracy theories began in 2020 after that year’s Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum discussed the Great Reset – how the world might respond to Covid.3 […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[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 […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away from the commemoration, across town, up the elevator to the apartment of her daughter Chelsea (where […]

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