The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Lobster was and remains a very small publication, the articles published in its early years provide us with a clear sense of the marginal concerns that preoccupied conspiracy theorists . . . .’ 19 A conspiracy theorist, moi? * new * It’s all in the mind There’s a new book about Sweden by a […]

Garrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] interviewed Dennis Healey about 1976. Healey said of the Treasury: ‘…any excuse they can find for getting spending cut they will take. It wasn’t so much a conspiracy against the government as an attempt to get the policies they believed in….The whole thing was unnecessary. If I’d had the right figures I needn’t have […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Castro. That is now the fall-back position for some of those who still advocate the lone assassin theory: if JFK was killed as a result of a conspiracy, it was a Cuban or Soviet one, in retaliation for JFK’s attempts to kill Castro. In an earlier brush with the assassination in his Intelligence Wars, […]

GArrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] but Prouty has no evidence for this. His comments are opinions, albeit those of a highly placed insider. Other possibilities exist: for example that the real assassination conspiracy was piggy-backed on the CIA stunt, a fake assassination attempt to be blamed on apparent Castro-sympathiser Oswald, implicit in Holt’s tale of the smooth-bore rifle firing […]

GArrick Kill chain 1 -7 pix copy 4

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] special counsel ‘did not find’ that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian actors. What actually happened is that we did not find sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to bring a criminal case—which requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It is not true we did not find any evidence . . .9 (Emphasis added.) […]

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 […]

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