Brexit: cock-up or conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: Brexit: cock-up or conspiracy? Bartholomew Steer After reviewing the Nancy MacLean book Democracy in Chains,1 it is apparent that the conspiratorial script of the radical right is the same across the world. – shrink the state/‘Starve the Beast’;2 – the introduction of constitutional barriers preventing democratic forces in one or more countries damaging multinational […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy? Andrew Rosthorn A sil Nadir was sentenced to 10 years in prison on 23 August 2012, for stealing £29 million from his company and from its North Cyprus subsidiary Uni-Pac. Soon after Justice Minister Chris Grayling rejected Nadir’s request for a transfer from a British to […]

The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] ideological milieu from which Agca emerged in Turkey and the bulk of the reliable evidence concerning the plot. In addition to accepting the validity of this ‘first conspiracy’, one that was rooted in indigenous Turkish politics, I believe that said evidence also suggest that there was a ‘second conspiracy’ launched by rightist elements within […]

The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

Brendan O’Malley and Ian Craig I.B. Tauris, London, 1999, £19.95 O’Malley and Craig are two senior British journalists and they have written a very interesting account of the post-WW2 machinations of America and Britain – initially Britain but, post Suez, chiefly America, as senior partner – to keep the people of Cyprus internally divided (Turks … Read more

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

Lobster Issue

[…] just showed the Arabs the way out of the country into Pakistan”…..That Ali had entrusted suggested to us that the escapes were part of a much broader conspiracy to assist al Qaeda right through to the end. How high up did this conspiracy go? Certainly Ali’s failure to capture Osama could have been and […]

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] UK publisher. The Man Who Knew Too Much has a unique take on the ‘whodunnit’ aspect of the assassination, a synthesis of the left and right wing conspiracy theories: Oswald was involved in the conspiracy to murder the President; and he was an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) […]

More JFK Assassination books

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] It isn’t true. How’s that for an opening sentence? Posner’s book doesn’t get any better thereafter. Bartholomew, Richard. Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used in the JFK Conspiracy. Pflugerville, Texas: The author, 1993. and 174pps. The automobile in question being the light-coloured Rambler station wagon that left Dealey Plaza ten minutes after Kennedy was […]

Defending the Warren Commission:the line from Langley

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission’s findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as to the existence of some kind of conspiracy, and often they have implied that the Commission itself was involved. Presumably as a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission’s Report, a public […]

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] straightforward crash that resulted from a powerful car being driven too fast by an intoxicated driver – whatever the loose ends and differences in investigative techniques that conspiracy theorists try to exploit.’ () As the inquiry progressed, however, there seems to have been a change of mind, with Stevens himself admitting that the investigation […]

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