A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] News show that he remains skeptical of the official 9/11 narrative. In 2018 Raso revealed he had been ‘disappointed’ by Chris Hedges ‘unhelpful’, ridiculing of ‘9/11 ” conspiracy theorists”’. See his comment on the article at or . And, also that year, he expressed mystification at prolific 9/11 author David Ray Griffin’s enthusiasm for […]

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, […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] London. In 1965, Chesterton published his influential book, The New Unhappy Lords, which Macklin sums up as ‘an elegantly written anti-Semitic assault upon the subversive and occult conspiracy which was supposedly seeking to replace the British Empire, and subjugate Western civilisation in general, to a “One World” Jewish super-state’. (p. 219) By now Chesterton […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] ask the question: is the CIA not in fact the primary broker of the international drug market? The reader who thinks that Valentine will feed the favourite conspiracy theory will be disappointed. Valentine does not end with a rousing plea to the jury to condemn the CIA as the great evil behind international drug […]

Casa Pia The making of a modern European witch hunt by Richard Webster

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] 1 Casa Pia 2 our modern evils’; and that ‘human beings in modern cultures still seem to need the sense that they are battling against an evil conspiracy.’ Of this second claim I am unconvinced. Webster’s analysis of the Bryn Estyn case and this} more recent one seems to me to explain how these […]

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 […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] scandal – at any rate a version of it – was laid out before her. A detailed retelling of that story of apparent British state murders and conspiracy is done by Olivia, using that Mossad-CIA report as the basis. Asil Nadir returned to Britain to face the charges against him, apparently believing he could […]

Last post for Oswald

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 […]

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

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 […]

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