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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]