Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Public relations, more usually referred to these days as ‘communications’, is a method used by organisations to explain themselves or issues, or sell a product/message/strategy. To create/manipulate their audiences’ various external environments so that these can prevail, sophisticated organisations firstly recognise competitor or negative PR; secondly, they counter it. The means by which they do … Read more
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
Publications The Kennedys: An American Drama Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Pan Books, London 1985) JFK:The Presidency of John F. Kennedy Herbert S. Parmet (Penguin Books, London 1984) Kennedy assassination buffs – and I confess to being one in a very small way – can’t resist books about the Kennedys even when they suspect there […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
It is still possible to find an interesting Penguin Special that appeared in 1958. British Economic Policy Since the War, by Andrew Shonfield, then Economics Editor of The Observer, remains a striking piece of work. Among his conclusions were: that the maintenance of a separate Sterling Area, giving the comforting feeling and appearance of great … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard In response to my snippet in issue 38 (p.22) on Moral Rearmament and the CIA, Daniel Brandt (1) sent me the following from Miles Copeland’s, The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative (London: Aurum Press, 1989, pp. 176-177). This is a nice demonstration … Read more
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
I’m still interested in the origins of the invasion of Iraq, the why and the when. At one level this is banal. We know, originally from CBS reporter David Martin, that within hours of the 9/11 attacks Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeldt was ‘telling his aides to start thinking about striking Iraq, even though there … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] military materiel that any unwilling or intransigent Israeli government could sit tight knowing it was relatively secure until the term of office of any well meaning or liberal US President expires. It would retain the option during such a difficult period of agitating – via the Israel lobby – within US domestic politics, to […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
See note (1) David Phillips, the former CIA officer considered by the Select Committee on Assassinations as a possible candidate for the true identity behind the cover name ‘”Maurice Bishop” -(2)- reacted strongly when this book was published in the summer of 1980. He contacted top executives in newspapers and television, making himself available to … Read more
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] the briefest acquaintance with the FOI schemes of other countries would show that they are always used by the media; and in even a minimalist version of liberal democracy the media plays a role as the primary informer of the citizen. The ongoing Di show The report of Operation Paget, the Metropolitan Police’s investigation […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a […]
