The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] regime that has no intention of allowing itself to be weakened or removed by what is left of US bourgeois democracy. This is not some sort of conspiracy theory. Trump has already tried to overturn a presidential election result by means of a coup and now, in his second term, has filled his administration […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] its cause, leads Bloom to Gary Murray who mentions this in his 1993 book Enemies of the State. This, says Bloom, ‘became a bible a both for conspiracy theorists and those whose legitimate investigations suggested an actual series of conspiratorial situations’. (p. 35) It did? News to me. Murray’s book was full of fascinating […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Studies at Edinburgh University and expert on British Intelligence, agreed the files prove MI5 was not involved with Hess. “If we boil it down very simply, the conspiracy theory is that there was a plot by British intelligence deliberately to lure Rudolf Hess to Britain to engage in peace negotiations in the spring of […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the SIS view of Russian influence on the Scottish and Brexit campaigns through his character? There is not enough evidence to say this, so this remains a conspiracy theory at this stage – but interesting.8 or 5 6 The evidence is examined by Jon Danzig at . See also Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] that Oswald acted alone.’ 15 The general thrust of the article was that this might finally be an opportunity to debunk the Warren Commission! There was a conspiracy, the Guardian article claimed, based around Oswald and the pro-Castro Cubans with whom Oswald is alleged by some to have associated with during his stay in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] no information on Lansdale’s whereabouts that day. ChatGPT can find nothing. E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA officer who talked about the CIA’s role in the assassination conspiracy when he was old and ill, did not See, for example, or . 9 10 Prouty discusses this in an audio tape at . Start around […]

A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] James Files story. Let’s take just one of them: Wim Dankbaar’s Files on JFK: Interviews with Confessed Assassin James E. Files, and More New Evidence of the Conspiracy that Killed JFK (published in 2008). From this, 4 The Sun-Journal (Lewistone, Maine) 29 September 1994. See or . 5 6 See note 3. anyone can […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Bank of England. Despite a positive reception and widespread reviews the book has not fired up resistance. But it has become fashionable to decry the power of conspiracy and to regard the path of history as the unfolding of the action of great men and forces beyond our current understanding. This book puts the […]

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