Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] book, The Socialist International at Gunpoint, (Picton Publishing, Chippenham, 1988) is the reproduction of a MARA report on the Socialist International, portraying it as a global socialist conspiracy. At one level this MARA report is absurd: the idea of the Socialist International meaning anything is just funny. But the level of ignorance on the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Sirhan’s gun could contain only 8 rounds.(1) The best single article on the assassination of Martin Luther King I know is Jim Douglass, ‘The Martin Luther King conspiracy exposed in Memphis’.(2) This article is based round the successful (but almost entirely unreported) 1999 unlawful death civil suit brought by the King family against Lloyd […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] go into the interview in Lobster 7 was why so little work had been done on the Robert Kennedy assassination. After all, at first glance, the ‘ conspiracy angle’ was quite plain: the autopsy proved – without qualification – that Sirhan Sirhan didn’t (couldn’t have) fired the shots which killed Robert Kennedy. Scott’s answer […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] dates them back to ‘ancient times’, whatever that means. However, even if we go back only as far as the 18th century, how would such a ramified conspiracy communicate when the fastest transport was horse which could do what, 20-30 miles a day at most? What did the messages sent between members of the […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] of Spooks and Secret Agenda), who writes that ‘the parapolitical underground should consider whether or not it matters that they’ve got it right or wrong. If any conspiracy theory will do, then the Steamshovel Press should be regarded as a literary enterprise — like Fate or Granta. If, on the other hand, it seems […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] their confidential documents he passed to Konkret in 1982. Published in Spiegel at the time and reproduced in Lobster 17, the documents give external confirmation of the conspiracy to effect a change of government in Britain, and reveal the European and world-wide links in this conspiracy through the Pinay Circle. The Pinay Circle (also […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] be said that I am hardly the first to suggest that the Jonestown massacre was the outcome of someone’s secret machinations. The affair is inherently mysterious, and conspiracy theories abound – the most prominent among them that ‘Jonestown’ was a CIA mind-control experiment. The view has been put forward in a number of venues. […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] UK (Tel: 0482 447558) ISSN: 0964-0436Contributors to this Issue Larry O’Hara is completing a PhD on British fascism Scott Van Wynsberghe has written widely on the Kennedy conspiracy, notably in The Third Decade. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales in Cardiff John Booth is a free-lance journalist living in London Previous […]