Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] point of this campaign was a story by Tim Golden of the New York Times, which explained that African-Americans are more susceptible than their fellow citizens to conspiracy theories and paranoia. But it’s not necessarily paranoid to note what crack has done to our cities, or that the U.S. prison population has tripled over […]

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Western Goals: LA Police Settle For $1.8 million

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] porno mag. owned by Larry Flynt. Much of what follows is lifted from that. LAPD had set up the Public Disorder and Intelligence Division and the Criminal Conspiracy Section (PDID and CCS) in the 1960s. In 1971 one of the CCS agent provocateurs, Louis Tackwood (a black), began exposing their activities. Tackwood later wrote […]

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The Cecil King coup plot

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] with Callaghan’s establishment of his 1976 economic seminar to accommodate the demands of the IMF (in which experts outnumbered politicians two to one) and changes to the conspiracy laws in 1977. The latter criminalised much trade union activity and other expressions of dissent and led to the show trial of Des Warren and the […]

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New Labour Notes

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] what we all know already – the Zinoviev letter was a fake, passed to the Daily Mail by Tory-supporting intelligence officers – combined with the classic ‘no conspiracy’ line. In this case, since the letter is an acknowledged forgery, and there was a conspiracy, there are two specious cop-outs. Not only is there ‘no […]

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Plot elements in the Colosio Murder Mystery

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] the possibility of a confluence of interest and activity among any, or all, of the above factions. Or maybe these events are unconnected, and there is no conspiracy at all. Since leaving office, Carlos Salinas de Gortari has been treated by the American and European press as a homeless, tragi-comic figure, sending mad faxes […]

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9/11: The new evidence

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] if the organisers of the exhibition knew that they did not identify the passengers using DNA, then the number of people who are engaged in the 9/11 conspiracy is getting rather large; and this makes the notion of a conspiracy less plausible. Henshall refers to the DNA identification of the bodies and offers another […]

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Our American problem

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] Criticism from this kind of quarter is worse than water off a duck’s back. It toughens the feathers, confirms the poor Kansans in their prejudices. A vast conspiracy One of those prejudices is that there is a vast conspiracy at work against them, composed of those self-same liberals, backed by dark agencies unknown. This […]

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The View from the Bridge: Blair. IMF. Bilderberg, etc

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from the Fortean Times, conversations between some of the US’s leading purveyors and students of conspiracy theories. Mark Pilkington of FT introduces the conversation with the comment that ‘Adrift amongst seas of information and disinformation, claim and counter-claim, a detached, more fortean […]

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Christic’s version of Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] operating since the early 1960s right through to the present day have had a surprising amount of publicity in Britain considering that this is the kind of conspiracy theorising which is normally anathema to our straight media. It must help being a radical Christian! The central document in their allegations is The Affidavit of […]

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Another Searchlight smear job

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] we found ourselves investigating and trying to expose in the major media far right involvement in the Green and New Age movements. This included links to anti-semitic conspiracy theorists, Holocaust revisionists, the British Israelite and Christian Identity Movements, the US militias and so on. David Icke, the magazine Nexus and the London-based magazine Rainbow […]

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