The Dirty War, and, The SAS in Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] confront was the use of black propaganda by the terrorists as well as the intelligence agencies, and how propaganda led to the deliberate or accidental creation of conspiracy theories. Much of the evidence in print or by word of mouth pointed to the involvement of British intelligence groupings in political murder and the manipulation […]

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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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Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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Impossible Knowledge Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth Todor Hristov London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £45 (UK), h/b The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish” Katharina Thalmann London and New York: Routledge, 2019, £29.99 (UK), p/b Robin Ramsay Todor Hristov alerted this reader in his short […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: Conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts THEY KNEW How a Culture of Conspiracy keeps America Complacent Sarah Kendzior New York: Flatiron Books 2022 John Newsinger Sarah Kendzior is one of the most interesting commentators writing about contemporary America. Her two previous books, The View from Flyover Country (2018) and Hiding in Plain Sight (2020), […]

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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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 […]

The Bilderberg Conspiracy: Inside the world’s most powerful secret society by H. Paul Jeffers

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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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 […]

The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up – A New Investigation by Tim Tate and Brad Johnson

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[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 […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Without Smoking Gun: Was the Death of Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up Conspiracy? by Kent Heiner

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

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