The View from the Bridge

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[…] warfare – the covert intervention by one country in the internal politics of another. The roots of this tradition are traced to the beginnings of modern mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian David Leigh’s 1978 Guardian account of the demise of IRD is archived at . 5 […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] came to dominate the mass media; and whose descendants dominate it today. In 2017, a real estate mogul from New York City, the original headquarters of the propaganda machine that created Woodrow Wilson, became the 45th president of the United States. The country has been waging war almost continuously since 1945, most recently its […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] down the search results we find a copy of his newsletter from 1974 released by the CIA.7 This is a rather impressive if bizarre piece of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] which we could certainly say this: thanks to the barely regulated funding of political parties16 and campaigns – and the entirely unpoliced use of the Net for propaganda – Cummings and Cambridge Analytica did a competent job of flooding peoples’ electronic devices with anti-EU messages. Many of them lies. Was this critical to the […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] has survived on the Right since the 1920s is the Economic League, running a largescale intelligence operation against the Left and the unions under cover of its propaganda operations. Continuously funded and staffed by British capital for over half a century, the Economic League has to be taken seriously. Yet there appears to be […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] which we could certainly say this: thanks to the barely regulated funding of political parties16 and campaigns – and the entirely unpoliced use of the Net for propaganda – Cummings and Cambridge Analytica did a competent job of flooding peoples’ electronic devices with anti-EU messages. Many of them lies. Was this critical to the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] the defeat of the CIA’s Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.22 Bleau concludes: Find out who designed tactics for either the false flag plots, their rollout, the propaganda themes, and who got the instructions through to contacts in Havana to send the letters, who set up the FPCC tainting strategy . . . You […]

View from the bridge

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[…] the defeat of the CIA’s Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.5 Bleau concludes: Find out who designed tactics for either the false flag plots, their rollout, the propaganda themes, and who got the instructions through to contacts in Havana to send the letters, who set up the FPCC tainting strategy . . . You […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Graham, on the other hand, was the brother of former OSS man and later Washington Post editor the late Phil Graham, who helped the CIA by running propaganda as part of Operation Mockingbird and by covering up the Agency’s failure at the Bay of Pigs, whose personal acquaintances included CIA Director Allen Dulles. (Phil […]

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[…] efficacy of vaccines and other lifesaving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in […]

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