The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Holt on November 22, 1963 remain unknown. Still . . . On The Atlantic site there is an essay by Brian Klass on the current popularity of conspiracy theories in America, ‘Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy’.27 It is illustrated with the image below. 26 or 27 10 Kennedy assassination research next to Jewish space lasers […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] account of Oswald at . 3 material linking Oswald to US intelligence agencies; and it is possible that they dismiss all that kind of information as ‘ conspiracy theories’ not worth their attention and are simply unaware of it. Even if they are familiar with it, Shenon is a former New York Times journalist […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.20 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.21 All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing economic […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] if Shenon and Sabato know the material linking Oswald to US intelligence agencies; and it is possible that they dismiss all that kind of information as ‘ conspiracy theories’ not worth their attention and are simply unaware of it. Even if they are familiar with it, Shenon is a former New York Times journalist […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.7 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.8 *new* All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a or 1 1 corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).2 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea. His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]

Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

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A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

[PDF file]: […] #16 Autumn 2000 Lobster #39 Summer 2000 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull HU5 3JB Lobster is the near legendary brainchild of Robin Ramsey, which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.7 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.8 All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing economic […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the truth. But, as history has shown all too often, the desires of mass audiences can be deflected and manipulated by powerful interests. Take, for example, the conspiracy theory which holds that the psychedelic counter-culture of the 1960s was engineered by the CIA as part of a plot by a secret, global elite bent […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to Intelligence Activities of the United States Senate. 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Book II (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976), pp. 25-31; Kathryn S. Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 69; Victor Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate (New York: […]

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