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 […]

View from Bridge 87pdf

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 mention Lansdale. But, assuming it is Lansdale, would his presence there make sense? It would. The piggy-back theory […]

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 […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] the practice in courts and in the media in a manner so adamant that the few remaining skeptics who accused it of lying were treated like wild-haired conspiracy junkies.’ (p. 164 emphases added) Further on, Snowden makes a more important, and perhaps overlooked revelation, that the scale and scope of the mass surveillance program […]

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 […]

View from the Bridge 87

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 mention Lansdale. But, assuming it is Lansdale, would his presence there make sense? It would. The piggy-back theory […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] less given its head by Mrs Thatcher, who believed – genuinely, as far as I can determine – that Britain really was facing a vast, Soviet-funded communist conspiracy, ‘the enemy within’. And so when Green heard that Murrell was missing it wasn’t so irrational that he should ring the Shropshire police and inform them […]

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 […]

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[…] the Al Jazeera videos on ‘the lobby’. This is at . or . 77 78 On his pages at . 26 propounding a version of the big conspiracy theory held by some of the antivaxxers in the USA and Europe. Covert Action has recently published another essay by Ms Ende, ‘U.S. Media Are Lying […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] later of course became its Director-General) match up pretty well with TrevorRoper’s picture of MI6 in the 1940s. Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘ conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by […]

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