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 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’. […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] of counter-intelligence and deputy controller’. He tells us (p. 240) that Peter Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] work on the Milteer case would have succeeded beyond hope of ever recovering the truth, by finally subtracting Don Adams himself. 2 JFK Assassination Eyewitness: Rush to Conspiracy The Real Facts of Lee Bowers’ Death Anita Dickason Archway Publishing (USA); 2013 ISBN 1480803359 Lee Bowers will need little introduction to students of JFK’s assassination. […]