Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] and beliefs of reporters and pundits mirrors that of the political and military establishment. The crucial propaganda function of the press was achieved not through any mass conspiracy to deceive the public but through ‘an ideology of news reporting that incorporates a set of routines, constraint, expectations – and myths.’ (p.200) Let a journalist […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] democracy, that a 1999 investigation by the Home Office’s chief historian found that in the case of the Zinoviev letter affair there was ‘no evidence of a conspiracy in the institutional sense.’ That is to say, MI6 as an organisation hadn’t perverted the course of the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] contractor to the United States government in numerous projects.’ Even though Halliburton settled out of court, Cheney’s spokeswoman Juleanna Weiss saw it as a different kind of conspiracy altogether, saying, ‘The voters are bound to question the timing of this investigation. The timing is suspicious, given the Clinton-Gore administration’s proclivity to manipulate the Justice […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] research papers in 1941/1942. Bergstresser later worked in the OSS. There is an interesting chapter on the life and work of Puharich in the otherwise unfathomable Stargate Conspiracy by Picknett & Prince (London, 1999). Bouverie (née Astor) was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, the owner of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] will have to go on the shopping list too for that reason alone. I wish I could be more positive about the Encyclopedia. It is firmly pro- conspiracy where the Investigation is open-minded (you decide, it says) and Jane Rusconi certainly knows her way about this neck of the woods – she was responsible […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] from scratch. (22) It rarely has either the resources or information to do this. This applies also to groups of individuals tempted to sue for negligence or conspiracy. The AICPA rarely disciplines its members. (23) It is a trade association rather than a disciplinary body, interested in protecting the interests of its members rather […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] of the intelligence empire which escape democratic control and constitutional legality. Their method of work is one of indirection, collusion and deceit. It is a world of conspiracy. Malcolm Muggeridge, himself in wartime MI6, noted that secrecy to MI6 ‘is as essential … as vestments and incense to a mass, or darkness to a […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little more about international conspiracy than understanding their individual motivations. From Charles Pottins Good to see you’re maintaining a sceptical eye on the ex-Living Marxism /Lying Marketing scam. I didn’t get […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] exposition is Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) There is a discussion of that literature in Niall Ferguson’s review essay, ‘Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory’, in Twentieth Century British History, vol. 4, 1993. The version which first struck me was Frank Longstreth’s essay ‘The City, Industry and the State’, in […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] many ambushes carried out by the SAS and other special units in Northern Ireland (and Gibralter). Without a state of war, setting an ambush is just a conspiracy to murder. No declaration of war means killings are legally problematic unless certain special circumstances pertain. Hence, finally, the endless, laughable courtroom accounts — usually at […]
