When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] spending,’ he said calmly. Page 144 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 ‘So any excuse they can find for getting spending cut they will. It wasn’t so much a conspiracy against the government so much as an attempt to get the policies they believed in.’ Beckett comments: ‘It seemed rather a fine distinction. Perhaps sensing this, […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

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[PDF file]: […] disclosure that the Bush administration had covertly earmarked more than $10 million to bankroll Endara’s ticket.35 Compounding that embarrassment was the DEA’s arrest in Georgia, on cocaine conspiracy and money laundering charges, of the CIA’s bagman, a wealthy Panamanian businessman and close friend of Endara, just one month before the election.36 A pro-Noriega newspaper […]

Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] the way of the President John F Kennedy assassination in 1963: anniversary recycling of old stories with its surviving researchers inhabiting the Grassy Knoll cast as ‘ conspiracy theorists’? It seemed likely when those looking into 9/11 were styled not as sturdy investigators but as obsessive ‘truthers’ indulging in the ‘voodoo history’ alleged by […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] to be murdered.19 Nutting was actually the minister of state at the Foreign Office, who resigned in a brave bid to deter Eden from the ‘mad imperial conspiracy to invade Egypt with the French and Israelis’20 in 1956. This diplomatic conspiracy trapped David Holden and Michael Adams in the Semiramis Hotel in Cairo, cost […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

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[PDF file]: […] chauvinist, who was at best indifferent to racism, and frequently denounced what he thought was a worldwide campaign against heterosexuality and gender stability. Among the other extravagant conspiracy theories he endorsed was the idea that vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic was akin to a form of biological warfare, conducted by western A reference to […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] fire and effectively allowed ‘the left to weaponise the Grenfell disaster’, aided and abetted by the BBC and Channel 4 who ‘presented the tragedy as a capitalist conspiracy against downtrodden workers’. Across London, ‘Trotskyist agitators spread the message that the dispossessed should grab power’ with Jeremy Corbyn calling for ‘a general strike, and revolution’. […]

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[…] chauvinist, who was at best indifferent to racism, and frequently denounced what he thought was a worldwide campaign against heterosexuality and gender stability. Among the other extravagant conspiracy theories he endorsed was the idea that vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic was akin to a form of biological warfare, conducted by western A reference to […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] now had two postal addresses in 10 Ironically, the FBI made this disclosure in an attempt to refute the claims of one of the first published JFK conspiracy theorists. See . 11 12 There is a rather furtive twist in his choice of apartment. 4905 Magazine Street is not a separate building, but a […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

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[PDF file]: […] the US Left cannot abandon the central theological foundation of the USA – an idea that it is sociopolitical salvation compared to Europe. When people write that conspiracy theories distract from greater political movement, this has the same cognitive and rhetorical function as the insistence even among radical clergy on the legitimacy of the […]

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[…] chauvinist, who was at best indifferent to racism, and frequently denounced what he thought was a worldwide campaign against heterosexuality and gender stability. Among the other extravagant conspiracy theories he endorsed was the idea that vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic was akin to a form of biological warfare, conducted by western A reference to […]

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