Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005,£15 (US $27.50) Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter and […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] 1990 such a document would have been about Soviet disinformation campaigns; and this one begins with some well known examples of Soviet disinformation before proceeding to attack conspiracy theories. It names only three current sources of conspiracy theories: the two websites, Rense.com and Conspiracy Planet, and ‘Australian private investigator Joe Vialls, who died in […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] within a fortnight had over 2 Mbs of data more than could be comfortably filed, let alone digested. And it has continued growing since. ‘9-11 + conspiracy’ on Google will now produce getting on for 6 million hits. By comparison, the critical information in the JFK case appeared in dribs and drabs over […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Phillips provides the first detailed examination of which I am aware of the various dock strikes during the period. Phillips concludes that the various charges of ‘communist conspiracy’ made by members of the government and senior trade union officials were spurious, and probably known to be spurious at the time.(1) The one oddity about […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘ conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a significant step for the major media of America; and only fifty-five years after the group’s inception. The Times piece adopts a more […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.’ Ribbentrop (1) was also convicted of two further counts, war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the evidence […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] of Gemstone is demonstrably false, much else uncheckable, almost all of it profoundly implausible, the damned thing’s continued circulation these past 25 years is a depressing testament to the intellectual sloppiness of conspiracy buffs. (Which is pretty much what Jim Hougan says about Gemstone in a letter of his about it included in this collection.)
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Opportunity. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1995. 342 pps. Illustrated, index. After all these years Moldea now says Sirhan Sirhan acted alone and there was no conspiracy, and those bullet holes in the doorway weren’t bullet holes after all. I wish I could believe him. PEPPER, William F. Orders to Kill: The Truth […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] survey carried out by CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) indicates that libraries are experiencing ‘increased police and security services activity.’ (17) It’s a conspiracy…. ‘Our findings call into question current questioning about the function of conspiracy theories. If……are a means to provide explanations for uncertain events, or are a response […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] of the coup which appeared in the June issue of a privately circulated newsletter from New Zealand, “Wellington Confidential”. Both stories were filled with unsupported allegations, innuendo, conspiracy and inaccuracy. “Wellington Confidential” attempts to model itself on a U.S. publication “Covert Action Information Bulletin” which claims to reveal U.S. intelligence activity, but often replays […]
