Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] was simply impossible to tell truth from fantasy, fact from fiction.’ (p. 200) On this account, IRD looks more significant that it has done previously. Its communist conspiracy idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British colonies, […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] the pile in post-war America and how the Ray brothers became petty criminals, as far as I can see it contributes nothing to our understanding of the conspiracy which ensnared James Earl Ray and led him to becoming the patsy in Memphis. It may illustrate certain peripheral items, such as Ray’s experience of the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[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’. […]