Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]

1976 anmd all that

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[…] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: Some Warren Commission stuff……… Anthony Frewin A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2013 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 625 pps. The subtitle is misleading. It should read, more correctly, The Secret History of the Warren Commission. But hold on, that’s not even […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] covered from time to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life . . . .” ‘Clegg . . . had already changed his mind about the deficit reduction plans. He was concerned about the firestorm engulfing Greece, and 9 23 Global Research, Nathan Allonby’s ‘Britain’s police state: London arrests based […]

German links to the Hammarskjöld case

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] airfield between Kolwezi and Ndola, even though reports indicate that no Katangese-held airport or airfield suitable for jets existed in that area. One airfield particularly comes to mind, Kipushi, where the Katangese government had raised its temporary headquarters. The distance between Kipushi and Ndola, there and back, is approximately 404 km. Nevertheless, even if […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] covered from time to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t […]

Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs by Ian N. Richardson et al

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] If the book’s contents are unexceptional, the interesting question is: why has it taken the academic world so long to get here? Two reasons come immediately to mind. The most obvious is that the interest taken by conspiracy theorists (mostly on the American right) in Bilderberg contaminated the subject for academics chiefly concerned with […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] element would be useful. That one of the Territorial SAS regiments took over this role from the Special Reconnaissance Squadron when it was disbanded proves, to my mind, that the role was indeed considered vial but that it should be undertaken by more specialist forces.2 7 Mainstream media coverage about the UKSF aspect of […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] of ritualistic obligation had robbed them of compassion. I was shocked to see that this important officer of the state of Israel did not dare speak his mind on the street. As he paced the floor, he told me that politics and ritual had crossed swords in the Holy Land for so long that […]

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