Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: Mary’s Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy? Andrew Rosthorn A sil Nadir was sentenced to 10 years in prison on 23 August 2012, for stealing £29 million from his company and from its North Cyprus subsidiary Uni-Pac. Soon after Justice Minister Chris Grayling rejected Nadir’s request for a transfer from a British to […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: Brexit: cock-up or conspiracy? Bartholomew Steer After reviewing the Nancy MacLean book Democracy in Chains,1 it is apparent that the conspiratorial script of the radical right is the same across the world. – shrink the state/‘Starve the Beast’;2 – the introduction of constitutional barriers preventing democratic forces in one or more countries damaging multinational […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] 58, an activist and political researcher who was well-known in the Portland, Oregon area, died on February 13, 1998 from an aneurism in the brain. Corruption and conspiracy in high places is the name of the game, but Ace was on the case. His broad familiarity with the dark side of American history will […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] done a couple of times on television, but much less comprehensively. Brown’s novelistic touches, however, frequently reduce the proceedings to the level of a Sydney Sheldon novel. Conspiracy Comics. Who Really Killed JFK? San Diego: Conspiracy Comics/Revolutionary Comics, March 1992. 32 pp. A comic book primer that asks the right questions, even if it […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] information would be welcome), and author of Secrets of the Federal Reserve, a title which alone almost certainly locates Mullins in the middle of mainstream right-wing crackpot conspiracy theorists. Stranger and stranger, New Age Monitor describes Mullins as the Theosophical protege of no less than Ezra Pound, and a former correspondent to the English […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] not only total junk, they are turgid in the extreme. On both occasions I tried to read one I gave up pretty quickly. Most of the right-wing’s conspiracy theorists are short on documentation and logic, but some, notably Gary Allen, just about carry this sceptical reader along. Reading Nesta Webster, on the other hand, […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Brendan O’Malley and Ian Craig I.B. Tauris, London, 1999, £19.95 O’Malley and Craig are two senior British journalists and they have written a very interesting account of the post-WW2 machinations of America and Britain – initially Britain but, post Suez, chiefly America, as senior partner – to keep the people of Cyprus internally divided (Turks … Read more
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] In the March/April 1995 issue there is a report on CSICOP’s annual conference, a chunk of which was devoted to the ritual trashing of the poor, demented, conspiracy buff by a couple of the incisive brains of the CSICOP. In one A4 page, their speakers, Melanie Klein and Don Yates, as reported in the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] ideological milieu from which Agca emerged in Turkey and the bulk of the reliable evidence concerning the plot. In addition to accepting the validity of this ‘first conspiracy’, one that was rooted in indigenous Turkish politics, I believe that said evidence also suggest that there was a ‘second conspiracy’ launched by rightist elements within […]