The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Prince Charles Flexes Orwellian BBC Mind-Control Muscle, Eyes Global Great Reset & Peace Antichrist Roles’. Meanwhile, back on Dealey Plaza Researchers into the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate affair are currently involved in an exchange of ideas on-line,17 looking into connections between the two events. John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old bollocks will do. From Dallas the author moves to Watergate and she has actually read some of the Watergate literature. But the muddle grows. ‘Weissman’s collection2 thereby points towards a trend in conspiracy theories in the […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] have read little or none – your perception of the extent of conspiracies by governments and organisations will be a gross underestimate. There is a piece on Watergate on the site,3 for example, which makes the banal point that conspiracy and cock-up often go together but discusses only the more obvious conspiracies within the […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

Lobster Issue

[…] in which these two books appear. 1 theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old bollocks will do. From Dallas the author moves to Watergate and she has actually read some of the Watergate literature. But the muddle grows. ‘Weissman’s collection 2 thereby points towards a trend in conspiracy theories in […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 2015 See or . 13 not appear to notice the towering irony of setting out to restrict the public’s ‘right to know’ in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that had propelled him into the Oval Office in the first place (another instance of a government trying to defend itself against a supposedly ‘hostile […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Hougan Did a pre-presidential meeting in the jungle between Nixon and a militaristic priest escalate ‘Nam? ‘A Call from Hunt: Inside the First Hours and Days of Watergate’ by Douglas Caddy ‘A Strange New Watergate Book: Lamar Waldron & Watergate’ by James DiEugenio So: this is some of the A-team as far as parapolitics […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] further to the right. That change has been achieved partly by money, but partly also with the assistance of deep events: events, such as the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the 1980 October Surprise, Iran-Contra and 9/11, which repeatedly have involved lawbreaking and/or violence, have been mysterious to begin with, and whose mystery has been compounded […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] pol who, last year, published a book arguing the LBJ’s-people-killed-JFK case.53 In the Daily Mail recently there was a puff piece for his new book on Nixon, Watergate et al, Nixon’s Secrets.54 In that, this sentence about Gerry Hemming appears, complete with the brackets: (For the conspiracy-minded, ‘Nixon’s Secrets’ also notes that Hemming had […]

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] mildly interesting but not significant. ‘Stone lays out the connections between the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco, the JFK assassination and the fall of Richard Nixon in Watergate. Stone outlines how Nixon manoeuvred furiously to obtain CIA records that would shed light on CIA-Mob connections to the JFK assassination as an “insurance policy” against […]

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