Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the mid 1990s, going to 66 countries. Given that we know of a great deal of research by the US military into means of influencing the human mind using electronics, microwaves and ultrasound, for example, it thus possible in my view that the experience of being abducted reported by thousands of Americans (and others […]

The Big C: Further notes on ‘conspiracy’

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] to an interview with Jonathan Vankin, author of what sounds like a kind of compendium of conspiracies and conspiracy theories, Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes: Political Manipulation and Mind Control in America (Paragon Books). Vankin offered this: ‘The accepted paradigm — the established view that the conspiracy theorists are struggling to overthrow — might be […]

MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] writing the Security Service had not quite taken over all the areas they have set their minds on. Apparently with the model of the FBI’s franchise in mind – subversion, terrorism, espionage and federal crime – Mrs Rimington is pitching to take over part of the police’s crime franchise. She offers MI5’s ‘distinctive role…..the […]

Our American problem

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] this derives from a traditional (and healthy) American disdain for those who put on airs. A word for them in current mid-westese is ‘latte-drinkers’. (‘Frasier’ comes to mind.) But it has gone beyond that now. Kansans despise all urban east- and west-coasters; liberals; intellectuals; vegetarians (Kansas grows a lot of meat); Volvo drivers; effete […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] appeared this year on the CBS News website(2) and in The Times.(3) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a […]

An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992), offers unique perspectives based on his own experiences in the Pentagon. And never mind that no one else offered to reprint Prouty’s book. Berlet’s point is that Prouty should not have given his good name to Liberty Lobby. And once […]

Letter from America

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] 30, 1994, Aguilar called Humes and Boswell to get their side of the story. Dr. Humes confirmed that he had spoken to Posner, but denied changing his mind about the skull wound, which he has always said was low. But here’s the kicker: not only does Dr. Boswell also continues to say that the […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] CIA documents recently released about the coup in Chile. See Scott Newton’s ‘Historical Notes’ in this issue. Good initially thought the documents were real, eventually changed his mind and is quoted in Jim Marrs’ Alien Agenda (p. 117) as believing they are a fake but contain some genuine information! At this stage in the […]

The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] of social and political changes that they have neither understood nor wanted to understand. It has a web site at . As you read this, bear in mind that this is a historical memoir of a particular period in time, from around 1991 to around 1998 at the latest. The LFIG should not be […]

Fleshing Out Skull and Bones

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] on Skull and Bones and related areas which are of little value. The Illuminati first appear on p. 17 and editor Milligan gives us an essay titled ‘Mind control, the Illuminati and the JFK assassination’. The least risible of these essays are by the late Anthony Sutton, who has been writing about the group […]

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