A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] #16 Autumn 2000 Lobster #39 Summer 2000 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull HU5 3JB Lobster is the near legendary brainchild of Robin Ramsey, which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.7 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.8 All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing economic […]
[…] account of Oswald at . 3 material linking Oswald to US intelligence agencies; and it is possible that they dismiss all that kind of information as ‘ conspiracy theories’ not worth their attention and are simply unaware of it. Even if they are familiar with it, Shenon is a former New York Times journalist […]
[PDF file]: […] unbidden and the title wasn’t encouraging. ‘The global coup d’etat’ is unintelligible, since d’etat refers to a state. The Great Reset? – ah yes, a cluster of conspiracy theories which were generated during COVID about . . . well some kind of global conspiracy. (I didn’t pay much attention at the time.)1 So I […]
[PDF file]: […] far the most dynamic part of the 21 June Report is a lengthy editorial, covering a page and a half of A4 paper, denouncing the ‘Communist world conspiracy’. As one might expect, this diatribe is full of hot words and extravagant claims, and focuses upon the ‘peaceful coexistence’ policy promoted by Soviet premier Nikita […]
[…] have had the vision to understand that “They’ll come for us next.” In other words, the danger is that what begins with perhaps defensible suppression of loony conspiracy theorists on the right will eventually spread to 2 3 On Haley see the Texas Monthly article cited in note 4 above and . or https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/73/ […]
[PDF file]: […] Jersey Mafia underbosses as Anthony (‘Fat Tony’) Salerno and Carmine Galante. Starting in the early 1960s, three federal trials of Cohn on charges of fraud, bribery, and conspiracy resulted in no conviction, but established his personal and business relations with various mobsters, including Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky.51 Like Garfinkle, Cohn was a financial […]
[PDF file]: […] and the related vast subsidy, wasn’t extended to the Nimrod programme. The absence of an urgent letter from Sir Nicholas MacPherson advising ministers is also noteworthy. ‘Official’ conspiracy theory The death of Major General John Strawson was noted by a couple of broadsheet obituaries recently. Strawson collaborated with Sir John Hackett as the (uncredited) […]
[PDF file]: […] time being two hours behind Texas. Despite Mellen’s tremendous research none of this is clear yet. Billie Sol Estes, who named Wallace as part of the JFK conspiracy, is dismissed after Mellen shows that he was a fraudster and a liar and compares and contrasts the many vague, contradictory and ambiguous things Estes said […]
[PDF file]: […] MI5 about their dealings with Mr Bonnett and were given a number of questions to put to him at their meetings. 7 Stephen Dorril, in The Silent Conspiracy, went further: Informers are often more productive sources than telephone tappings and can be made psychologically dependent on their case officers. Bonnett, with his romantic old-style […]
