View from Bridge copy

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[…] their arguments may well be wrong. (p. 108) Well hell, details of anyone’s arguments ‘may well be wrong’. That’s almost praising with faint damns *new* Cock-up? No, conspiracy. Back to Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, what used to be the beating heart of the US establishment. There is a […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

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Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower Garrick Alder Part 1 ‘A conspiracy to thwart the will of the people’1 Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] disclosure that the Bush administration had covertly earmarked more than $10 million to bankroll Endara’s ticket.35 Compounding that embarrassment was the DEA’s arrest in Georgia, on cocaine conspiracy and money laundering charges, of the CIA’s bagman, a wealthy Panamanian businessman and close friend of Endara, just one month before the election.36 A pro-Noriega newspaper […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] his earlier career as a champion of human rights and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Archives.9 Hess and the Doppleganger Hess Andrew Rosthorn’s piece on Rudolf Hess in the current issue10 makes mention of the BBC Timewatch episode ‘Hess: The Edge of Conspiracy’. The programme was fronted by the eternally smug Professor Christopher Andrew – he who was chosen by MI5 to be the custodian of their officially published […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] 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 6 The evidence is examined by Jon Danzig at . See also Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos at or […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] exposition is Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) There is a discussion of that literature in Niall Ferguson’s review essay, ‘Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory’, in Twentieth Century British History, vol. 4, 1993. The version which first struck me was Frank Longstreth’s essay ‘The City, Industry and the State’, in […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] refused to speak to any specific charges but suggested instead a nefarious anti-Semitic plot afoot within Citizen Lab, Israeli government apparatchiks joined the chorus singing cabal and conspiracy. “I can tell you that’s for sure that we see the fingerprints and footprints of anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic Financial Times 19 July 2019 1 2 […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] reviving the ‘lawless spirit . . . of the 1960s’. They want ‘a revolution and they are so close they can taste it’. (p. 13) This great conspiracy has made use of ‘Marxist/Lenin doctrine: lie, divide and conquer’ to bring America down. Wallnau singles out the late historian Howard Zinn (who died in January […]

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