Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] offence against Section 84 of the Larceny Act 1861 in relation to the recommendation to shareholders in 1966 relating to new options being granted to Rowland. A conspiracy to defraud in relation to Nyaschere and the Shamrock mine of which the essence was personal enrichment of the principals. Offences against Section 19 of the […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] Talons of the Eagle. See Tom Bower, Blind Eye to Murder – Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, a Pledge Betrayed (1981) and The Paperclip Conspiracy (1984) and Christopher Simpson, Blowback – America’s Recruitment of Nazis and its Effects on the Cold War (1988) Myrha – who describes himself as ex-US Marine […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] Keith Dovkants described the operation, as the sub-heading to his piece had it, as ‘a classic sting operation set up by MI5 who were alerted to the conspiracy by a paid informer’. This was apparently revealed to Dovkants by two Polish journalists who had been tipped off that all was not what it seemed. […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] 688/9. Smith p. 154. There is now a large literature on this. There is a discussion of that literature in Niall Ferguson’s recent review essay, ‘Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory’, in Twentieth Century British History, vol 4, 1993. The exposition which first struck me was Frank Longstreth’s essay ‘The City, Industry and the State’, in […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] could go on but mocking this delusional system of belief is too easy to be much fun. The LaRouche nonsense is only interesting to those who collect conspiracy theories. Since the John Birch Society’s reworking of Nesta Webster, there have been very few authentically modern conspiracy theories. LaRouche has produced one. Is it more […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] things have changed since this issue. A sample copy for $5 from PO Box 9, Franklin Park, NJ 08823-0009, USA. I have issue 2 of Paranoia, The Conspiracy Reader, which began this year. This is very nicely produced, 24 pages with a glossy cover and illustrations, but the material is distinctly patchy. So issue […]
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 16 (1988) £££
[…] case still trundles along; in 1968 de Courcy was awarded costs of £6,000 and all claims against him were ‘released and extinguished’. At the centre of the conspiracy, de Courcy claims, was a circle of former intelligence officers, friends of Rothschild and Philby. In September 1963 de Courcy wrote a remarkable series of letters. […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would be chucked in as well? Prominent among the author’s sources are Anthony Sutton, Gary Allen, of None Dare Call It Conspiracy fame, John Coleman, the Brit claiming to have been an MI6 officer, whose Committee of 300 – more utter tosh – is regularly quoted, and Eustace […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] a dissenting voice trying to operate within mainstream American media. Yep, despite the conspiracy-laden history of American since 1963 — hell’s teeth, U.S. domestic political history is conspiracy — the accusation of ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still the main weapon of intellectual coercion among the Higher Media. Chasing the story the U.S. government least wanted […]