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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] film rights to the book and then hired Louis de Rochemont as producer. Cohen also wrote a lengthy article on the film for Animation World Magazine. ‘Animated propaganda during the Cold War’ in the issue dated 21 February 2003. (Also available at ). An edited version was published in The Guardian 7 March 2003 […]

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Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] orientation is overseas: this is the territory of the Foreign Office and its think tank satellites like the Royal Institute for International Affairs – the political and propaganda apparatus of the overseas lobby. The Ideology of the Blairites It is not as if Mr Blair has made any attempt to conceal what he believes. […]

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Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] material, though there were some peculiar letters from a Wilson enemy Hartley Shawcross. What the Tribunal did reveal was the involvement of the newly created Foreign Office propaganda unit, IRD, within the Labour movement. There was considerable press interest in 1962 in the East-West Traders who went to the Leipzig Trade Fair. Questions were […]

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The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] Party and British industrial capital; and even among the corporatists there were divisions.8 Frank Longstreth called this network – of BCU, Industrial Group, FBI and other employer propaganda groups of the period, such as the Economic League – the Preference Imperialists, and noted their links to the earlier Midlands manufacturing-based Tariff Reform League.9 As […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a right-wing leader. As a footnote to these events they examine the role of the “black” propaganda unit in Northern Ireland during the period leading to the downfall of the Power Sharing Executive. They make sense of Harold Wilson’s complaints when he resigned […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] later wrote: ‘Since the war, Luce, the eternal seeker of power, had achieved it more and more by the cleverness of his concealment of increasing amounts of propaganda in his publications, which were not generally known to be propagandist. The manipulative corruption of the Lucepress7 worked on two levels – the readership which was […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] being in some way different from the nuclear weapons of capitalist states.60 Delusions about the nature of Soviet society were maintained and criticism of it deflected as propaganda created by a malevolent capitalist west. But today’s Russia has little to do with the former Soviet Union. Yes, there is a complex back story to […]

[PDF file]: […] being in some way different from the nuclear weapons of capitalist states.31 Delusions about the nature of Soviet society were maintained and criticism of it deflected as propaganda created by a malevolent capitalist west. But today’s Russia has little to do with the former Soviet Union. Yes, 28 By email Mr Klarenberg told me […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up at the onset of the Cold War to counter Soviet Communist Bloc propaganda, by monitoring, conducting research and providing unattributable briefings to journalists and others. 3. By the time I joined, IRD’s terms of reference had widened to include […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . Barry Zorthian (1920-2010) was head of USIA/JUSPOA (Joint United States Public Affairs Office) in Saigon from 1964 until 1968. JUSPOA was the central office for press, propaganda and psychological operations in the US mission in Vietnam. The conference was ‘The American Experience in Southeast Asia 1946-1975’, Washington, DC 29-30 September 2010. See . […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Business, propaganda and terror The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam Douglas Valentine 1990 Reissued by Open Roads as e-book in the new series ‘Forbidden Bookshelf’ curated by Mark Crispin Miller, 2014. Dr. T. P. Wilkinson D ouglas Valentine explained the purpose or at least the subject of his study of the […]

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