[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at 8 or . 3 If […]
The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In ‘The crisis’ in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party’s policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences. ‘The Conservatives are the party for the City. We are […]
[PDF file]: […] issue 28 I have argued that Chauncey Holt 26 Stone’s book is reviewed in Lobster 66 at . 27 ‘Roger Stone vs. the world: inside the conspiracy-filled mind of legendary GOP trickster’ at I pointed out Caro’s omission of Estes in Lobster 65 at the end of 28 probably wasn’t the ‘third tramp’ on […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] a coup to bring British troops onto the streets’, 16 August 1974. Page 106 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 At the centre was poor old Harold Wilson whose mind, according to Wheen’s diagnosis, was ‘a simmering goulash of halfremembered incidents and unexplained mysteries’. With Wilson in a folie à trois were Penrose and Courtiour, ‘poor […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), 2018, […]
