South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] America in his ‘Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows’.4 ‘The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] because – unlike Bilderberg or similar effusions of establishment networking (including Davos) – they don’t appear to bear the imprint of political control or in extremis, ‘ conspiracy.’ Having said that, they are very obviously deeply committed to maintaining the fabric of the current social order. However I have not yet completed my list […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] quite apart from anything else – an opportunist assertion of US power in general. In closing remarks, Harvey lambasts ‘….what amounts to academic groupthink – like other conspiracy theories, neoconism develops an entire narrative around a simplistic first image (leadership driven) theory6 about the Machiavellian brilliance and 6 Frank Harvey is here assuming the […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] June, 2019 .) 12 13 This morally questionable but, nevertheless, legal explanation comes on p. 387. 14 p. 39 4 money? Looking beyond these character flaws, the conspiracy against him is well established by Rosthorn’s account. There are even hints that the intelligence services were involved. As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cricketer Basil D’Oliveira, confirming with solid evidence the long-held suspicions of anti-apartheid campaigners about the malign roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet […]

lob86South of the Border

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South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Treasury is getting governments to control spending,’ he said calmly. ‘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, […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Gordon Maclendon’s Wiki entry includes this: ‘Jack Ruby was both a listener and admirer of McLendon and known to the staff of the station, including Gordon McLendon. Conspiracy theorists Warren Hinckle and William Turner (in their book Deadly Secrets) and Peter Dale Scott have alleged that McLendon played a peripheral role in the John […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] journalist described the CIA as ‘the single greatest cause of America’s world-wide unpopularity’, no less. Behind all this lay two things. The first was the idea that conspiracy was somehow a gentler way to effect political change than brute force, involving less bloodshed, at least among your own people. (‘Native’ blood, of course, was […]

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