South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 28 8 Steele Dossier!29 Confirmation that our man was (at least willing to act as) a representative of MI6 comes from the transcript of the symposium ‘The Mind of the Hacker Insights from GCHQ, MI6 and Israeli Intelligence’.30 This shows the audience were told they would ‘be joined on stage by Arthur Snell from […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] and conspiracy theories, that in many ways serve to distract from, and cover-up, what is actually going on. As she points out: Watergate, Iran-Contra, the CIA’s MKUltra mind control experiments, the aborted 1960s false flag Operation Northwoods and other US government plots were all, at some point, labeled wild conspiracy theories – until they […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] wrote while in prison. Ruby implies that reading the book would explain JFK’s assassination. Extracts are quoted on p. 604 of Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ The Master mind of JFK’s Assassination (Xlibris, 2010). This was reviewed in Lobster 61 at or 4 or 5 Had Monbiot gone a step further he could have mentioned […]

Beyond Business by John Browne

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Wei, Blog, 7 February 2011. events.’ He became head of BP in 1995, after the Thatcher privatisation had ‘finally released the company from its governmental state of mind. It could become more commercial and competitive’. He went on to ‘transform BP into Britain’s leading business and a global giant. BP became the world’s second […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] by God. Yet many still don’t see it’. (p. 13). Wow indeed! It is tempting to just dismiss all this as the inconsequential ravings of a disturbed mind, but, as an incredulous Jon Sopel observes, the story of Hillary Clinton being involved with a Washington DC paedophile ring, the so-called ‘Pizzagate’ affair, actually got […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] is Jacob Chansley) was wearing a costume that cost hundreds of dollars, paid for by his job as an accountant’. This, as Kolin points out, ‘brings to mind the social composition of fascist movements’. As for Trump, he is ‘a populist Wizard of Oz, presenting himself as a champion of the masses. But when […]

Laissez faire as religion

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] terms) irrational and damaging to the individual who engages in it. If you want an example of one of Richard Dawkins’ memes (mental viruses which capture the mind) at its most virulent, you cannot do better than the addiction to unbridled Page 83 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 laissez faire displayed in the face of […]

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