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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b Robin Ramsay If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed in her […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] a common line. And regardless of which party is in power in Washington, their luminaries have flocked to Bilderberg meetings in equal numbers: so if there’s a conspiracy going on here at all it is merely to continue to expand the set of loosely defined values which keep these folk in thrall – capitalism […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up – A New Investigation Tim Tate and Brad Johnson London: Thistle Publishing, 2018, £11.99 (p/b) Robin Ramsay The assassination of RFK has received infinitely less attention than that of his brother. This isn’t surprising as he wasn’t the president. He was just a politician […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy Graeme MacQueen Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2014, $19.95, £12.99 ISBN 978-0-9860731-2-0 Anyone remember the American anthrax scare of 2001? I’d pretty much forgotten about it until I read author Graeme MacQueen who says that it was a key part of the 9/11 events that took […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: Without Smoking Gun: Was the Death of Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up Conspiracy? Kent Heiner Trine Day, 2004, p/b, £16 (approximation from current dollar value) A catchy title for a book this is not, although given that Lt. Cmdr. Pitzer is such an obscure figure you can hardly fault […]