The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] is a 20 billion dollar offshore money laundering racket exposed last month by the Sarajevo-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Its deepest secrets are still hidden in the British Virgin Islands, where fewer than 25,000 residents of fifteen tropical islands host the registered offices of 800,000 offshore companies. Researchers in the multinational […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] lure their intended readers into a maze of dead-ends and false connections. And what on earth would have been the reason for jumbling all this information together, hidden in the text of a popular novel, rather than relaying it via normal espionage routes? Unless Lewis’s intelligence contact was playing some obscure game for his […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] 293 See Bower, The Perfect English Spy, chapter 4 294 Wyatt fronting for IRD. 295 The Peril In Our Midst, (London: Phoenix House, 1956) Aidan Crawley, ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’, Sunday Times, 28 October 1962, reprinted as a pamphlet. Crawley fronting for whom? IRD seems the most likely answer. 296 65 saw […]

Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

Lobster Issue

[…] . . terrorism attributed to Muslim extremists (“Islamic terror”). It is also about the incomparably greater violence of the state, both the state in general and its hidden hand in terrorism.’ Yes, the state has used ‘incomparably greater violence’ against Muslim countries than we have experienced in the UK. But has the state’s ‘hidden […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] peddle. Before 2008, Trump did virtually no business outside the USA. This was about to change. The word went out to ‘everywhere dirty money is gained and hidden’, that Trump’s services were available to ‘shine you up’ (p. 61). As Reuters reported in March 2017, no less than 63 individuals with Russian passports or […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] NATO set up underground armies of resistance, ‘stay behind’ groups, to fight the red invaders – a secret paramilitary structure, co-ordinated through NATO HQ, which was kept hidden from most of Europe’s politicians and all of Europe’s citizens. This was Gladio. After the Soviet bloc disintegrated in the early 1990s these ‘secret armies’ were […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] executed in 1944 after the plot to kill Hitler. Most of his diaries were buried in the garden of his house in Ebenhausen, near Munich. Some were hidden in Switzerland. Von Hassell wrote in January 1941 that Carl Burckhardt of the Swiss Red Cross had ‘looked me up in Geneva’. Von Hassell noted in […]

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