Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] danger of television companies employing convicted criminals as researchers.’ Raven was in prison when police used evidence from his spy cameras to help convict four people of conspiracy to counterfeit currency. A BBC News bulletin announced the screening of the corporation’s investigative programme Funny Money: Two years ago a BBC current affairs undercover team […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] nonsense Nesta Webster used to write in the early twentieth century – conspiratorial literature that saw the Russian Revolution as part of a longer history of Jewish conspiracy. Winston Churchill was reportedly a fan of this stuff. Indeed, while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] manipulation by the Americans, in league with the Swedish Moderaten Party (recently advised, for example, by Karl Rove of all people) – in other words, a ‘ conspiracy’ – begins to seem the most credible of all possible options. I doubt whether Ny is part of this; she has enough ultra-feminist motivation of her […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] rest of his tale has to be treated with great caution. And it is a striking story. Holt tells us that he was (unwittingly) involved in this conspiracy at four points. He was actually with Lee Harvey Oswald in the incident when Oswald handed out pro-Castro leaflets in New Orleans; he’d been sent down […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

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Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower Garrick Alder Part 1 ‘A conspiracy to thwart the will of the people’1 Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to […]

Rudolf Hess: Truth at last: The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Hess’ desperate and bizarre initiative, and his subsequent life incarceration in Spandau prison, have given rise to a host of conspiracy theories. The authors deserve credit for their stamina in going through both older and newer material with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. My only quibble is that […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] by indirection, collusion, and deceit.’ But Scott became dissatisfied with this and moved away from ‘consciously diminished…. covert politics’ – which is perhaps treading too close to conspiracy theories, or theories about conspiracies – to deep politics: ‘all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged’. As […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

Lobster Issue

Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower Garrick Alder Part 1 ‘A conspiracy to thwart the will of the people’1 Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to […]

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