The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] (with much help from Robert Morrow)1 but Mae Brussel? Currently on the site is an essay lauding Brussel by Kuzmarov and Alexis Baden-Mayer.2 Brussell was a California-based conspiracy theorist in the 1970s and 80s who had a weekly radio programme. I came across her in the late 1970s as I was getting interested in […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] gunman in Dealey Plaza.’ 4 Oswald, in turn, was killed in police custody by Jack Ruby, a ‘very troubled misfit, loser’, and not part of any grand conspiracy. But Shenon has a conspiracy theory of his own, one floated immediately after the assassination and discounted. In this Oswald, the lone wolf assassin, was encouraged […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] gross deformities born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological legacy of warfare’.1 The pictures are disgusting. Quigley The American conspiracy theorists of the 1970s promoted Carroll Quigley’s then very hard to find Tragedy and Hope as a seminal work on the powers-that-be. In the first issue […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological legacy of warfare’ at . The pictures are disgusting. Quigley The American conspiracy theorists of the 1970s promoted Carroll Quigley’s then very hard to find Tragedy and Hope as a seminal work on the powers-that-be. In the first issue […]

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 […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Northern Ireland of Marion and Dolores Price (plus six others) then in custody in England. The Price sisters were convicted in London, on 15 November 1973, of conspiracy to cause explosions. In pursuit of the transfer, the sisters went on hunger strike and were force-fed. In the absence of official confirmation of the IRA […]

Inside the AARB, Volume IV by Douglas P. Horne

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] that regardless of how and by whom the Zapruder film may or may not have been altered, what was left was still compelling enough evidence of a conspiracy. The real question then becomes whether, having done such a bad job of covering-up the ultimate evidence of the frontal shots, they might have been trying […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] formation of the British-American 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 […]

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