Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] also the second part of a long piece by Uri Dowbenko, now working with Steamshovel, who is making another attempt at a sort of Christic Institute mega conspiracy theory about the CIA and drugs. It includes what purports to be an affidavit from the Reagan-era Director of the CIA William Casey. (To me it […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed by a section of the British spooks, believed that the Labour Party and the unions were a Communist conspiracy and were thus ‘a legitimate target’. Oborne’s idea of ‘political’ simply does not encompass activities by the state, let alone the secret state. In one sense […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] notes) which contains a lot of new material. Black is that unusual creature, an academic historian who has included Bilderberg in his account. AIDS Remember all the conspiracy theories claiming that the AIDS virus had been a US military experiment? This seemed to have been dealt with when word emerged from the former Soviet […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] and King magisterially, ‘to substantiate this view, and all the available accounts tell against it. As so often, the cock-up theory seems infinitely more plausible than the conspiracy theory.’ At the end of their 23 detailed chapters, cock-up – ‘a study in failure’ – is their considered conclusion. Jenkins, now Chancellor of Oxford University, […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] the union leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, had been promoted to the status of the front men for a Soviet revolution in the UK in the conspiracy theories of a faction of the British spooks which had Thatcher’s ear at the time. If Scanlon-Jones were suspect, so were their associates; and Goodman was […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in the … Read more
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] then Chairman of the Security Commission’. Murray leaves this extraordinary episode thus: What happened from that point on is unknown but what is certain is that the conspiracy against Gerry Gable was brought to an abrupt halt’. Armed bodyguards, arranged by Special Branch to protect the editor of an anti-fascist magazine, after a telephone […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] is good, offering unlimited energy to mankind. Those who oppose nuclear power are luddites at best; at worst they herald the ‘new dark ages’. Everything is a conspiracy. Normal politics is entirely a sham; reality is faked for the moronic citizen-voters. (And, of course, only LaRouche has the key to unlock the mystery.) () […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] other areas. These pages contain much new material and are being read and taken seriously by the anti-EU groups in this country. For those who enjoy the conspiracy theorising about spookery for which Larry is also known, he has another go at journalists in this issue – with the usual disastrous results, in my […]