The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] 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? It’s all in the mind There’s a new book about Sweden by a Swede living in […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] interesting might just appear. In this case, nothing did. I also asked Google AI about Holt and got this. While Holt’s claims are often cited in JFK conspiracy literature, they were largely undermined in 1992 when the Dallas Police Department released records identifying the “three tramps” as Harold Doyle, John Gedney, and Gus Abrams—three […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]

Hess DNA: Round 14

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Reach Tower, Stamford Street, London SE1 9LS March 20, 2020 Questions Arising from the New Scientist article of January 22, 2019: ‘Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory’ Dear Ms Wilson, I would like to bring to your attention an article published recently by one of the authors of the research paper that […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] danger of television companies employing convicted criminals as researchers.’ Raven was in prison when police used evidence from his spy cameras to help convict four people of conspiracy to counterfeit currency. A BBC News bulletin announced the screening of the corporation’s investigative programme Funny Money: Two years ago a BBC current affairs undercover team […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

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 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]

Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs by Ian N. Richardson et al

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?’ . […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]

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