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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] the aftermath of Nixon’s downfall. It was knowledge of this network and its methods which enabled Blumenthal to identify what Hilary Clinton eventually called the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ against her husband 18 If you think the British libel laws are too restrictive, Blumenthal’s account of the extraordinary fictions about Clinton which the American right […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] why has it taken the academic world so long to get here? Two reasons come immediately to mind. The most obvious is that the interest taken by conspiracy theorists (mostly on the American right) in Bilderberg contaminated the subject for academics chiefly concerned with careers and 1 Jon Ronson, ‘Who pulls the strings?’ . […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] later died in circumstances that are still the subject of debate and reinvestigation. The usual theory is that she was murdered to prevent her from exposing a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination.6 With two mystery deaths on its roll-call, the ominous nature of the ‘Marilyn memo’ seems unavoidably obvious. The memo also mentions that […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] warfare also be in the pipeline? Just as the Pentagon claimed that it wanted to prevent a ‘space Pearl Harbor’ and a ‘weather Pearl 75 Interviewed in Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: “HAARP”, truTV, 2009, 76 William Cohen, ‘Cohen address 4/28 at Conference on Terrorism: Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy’, University of […]