Directory of British Political Organisations, 1994

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of leading lights and other […]

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Protection for Intelligence Assets

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] the influential CIA-backed Conlon Report, were even suggesting some kind of normalisation of relations with mainland China. This context of detente makes all the more remarkable the propaganda activities of the Narcotics Bureau and George White in the 1959 Hip Sing opium case. In effect, the FBN was covering up for the KMT-narcotics network […]

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Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] Conservative Students detested socialism and communism and shared the Reagan administration’s view of the Soviet Union as ‘the evil empire’. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be […]

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The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] 1971 version the IRA was actually trying to buy the arms. (7) The similarities lie in the way the British state used the arms find to make propaganda. Fig. 1 Illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property) […]

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The CIA-Mafia-Narcotics Connection and the U.S. Press

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] White, a former OSS official and CIA consultant who had represented OSS in the Operation Underworld negotiations with Meyer Lansky. For years Anslinger would uncritically transmit KMT propaganda about a world-wide Red Chinese opium conspiracy and document it persuasively with evidence of what he knew very well was in fact the KMT’s own narcotics […]

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Hacks, pols and PR

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] laptop’s twelve-inch screen we stand as high as Punch Sulzberger, or Rupert Murdoch.’ Neither predicts the demise of newspapers, ‘but it’s a world in decline, and a propaganda system in decline……We can get a news story from a CounterPuncher in Gaza or Ramallah or Oaxaca or Vidharba and have it out to a world […]

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Censored 2004

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] or ‘The Effort to Make Unions Disappear’ ever playing big on network news. Mainstream news outlets are turning out ever less news and ever more froth and propaganda, and it would be nice to have this trend reversed; that said, some stories are only ever going to appear in magazines with committed readerships. (Widely […]

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Deadly Illusions

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] research and flights to and fro between Moscow, London and the United States. Who is reading this stuff? Well, there is a group of a few dozen Anglo-American scholars of espionage history, many of them witting or unwitting carriers of state propaganda — the “useful idiots’ of NATO. Apart from them, I have no idea.

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Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] justice’, with its procedures loaded against the defendant and the verdict predetermined. Laughland thinks Milosevich has been misrepresented by the Western media (which was conned by NATO propaganda) and outlines a serious case for this here. Running parallel to his account of the trial is a critique of the ICTY and its legal basis. […]

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KAL 007: 16 Years Later

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] to scab together a televised tape of the exchanges that an apparently unwitting Jean Kirkpatrick was to show the UN’s Security Council. The reaction to the Administration’s propaganda initiative were immediate. The political strength of the peace movements in both England and Germany, muscular enough to have kept the U. S.’s Pershing II and […]

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