Jim Jones and the Conspiracists

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

In an article in the Journal of Popular Culture, (1) one of the editors of the Jonestown Report considers the role that conspiracy theories have played in the unfolding narrative of ‘Jonestown’. It is a worthwhile endeavour to which few scholars could bring better credentials. Rebecca Moore is a professor of religious studies at the […]

Saddam Hussein on Trial

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] wants’ at . 19 See, for example, . 20 6 inter alia, USAID. And USAID has a long documented role as a cover for the CIA. (Never mind the rumours that World Vision itself provides cover for the CIA.) and ‘suspected’ (used twice) in that quotation above. Perhaps one day there will be some […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Vision. They’re evangelical Christians and partners with and funded by, inter alia, USAID. And USAID has a long documented role as a cover for the CIA. (Never mind the rumours that World Vision itself provides cover for the CIA.) The Cambridge phone call redux Anthony Frewin reports: The BBC News website carried a story […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] all lies and nonsense. Fort Bliss really is situated at the four-state square conjunction as specified, but it had no role whatsoever in any of the USA’s mind control research. Nor is it connected to the US Navy, being a US Army post. The Navy’s early mind control research, Project CHATTER, was abandoned in […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the 26th of that month. Baldrige warned: ‘I think he’s unhappy about some of the things Time has been publishing.’30 As Clare discovered, the subject occupying Kennedy’s mind was Cuba. Face-to-face with Kennedy, Clare told him that she could not understand why communism in Vietnam was such a pressing problem for his administration, when […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] there is very little reliable information. What there is, try Searchlight No 28 and New Statesman 18 December 1977. This might be a suitable place to re mind readers that Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5. This was made plain by the “Gerry Gable memo” mentioned in […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] disclosure could seriously harm international relations. With the Soviet Union dissolved and Whitlam long dead, it’s difficult to imagine which international relations the Cabinet Office has in mind. There is absolutely no suggestion that Mr Murdoch’s old friend David Cameron is in any way doing him some kind of personal favour by withholding the […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Broderick on 13 May 1985, but in his record of that interview there is no mention of the document’s existence. That appears to be inexplicable, bearing in mind its obvious significance to the RUC investigation. Moreover, although Peter Broderick informed RUC DI Cooke that my superior officer in Psy Ops was Colonel Geoffrey Hutton, […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] from his own experience at pre-1914 Cambridge and then as a member of the Bloomsbury Group, that people knew and felt goodness, leading to ‘good states of mind’, at various times in their lives, whether in the form of – for example – personal affection, beauty or pleasure in great art and literature. This […]

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