Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] which also had seemingly-limitless reserves of youthful energy. The DRE had been established by the CIA in 1960, originally as a combined outlet and amplifier for anti-Castro propaganda and other psychological operations. There was direct liaison with the CIA via JMWAVE, the Agency’s sprawling Miami station, which was effectively the general headquarters of nearly […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] 8 2 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (HarperCollins, 1993). There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The Comintern developed as a centre of expertise in the field before fracturing in […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] two prominent South Carolina banksters (the other being James Byrnes) introduced the term into American political discourse with, inter alia, the aid of the dean of political propaganda, Walter Lippmann, as the US Empire was mobilising to absorb the remains of European empires after the defeat of Japan.1 The subsequent 50 years of US […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the threat of an extremist-dominated Labour Party, themes that were also found in the output of Crozier’s Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC) and the black propaganda being created in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland. Haseler had floated the idea of a new party in his 1980 ‘Towards a […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] anyone checking on the name’s associations.1 5 Between 1961 and 1963, overlapping the creation and publication of Burgess’s novel, Dr Adams was policy director of the CIA-funded propaganda station Radio Free Europe, broadcasting to Soviet satellite states.16 So the name of vellocet’s inventor is associated with repression, and the contemporary academic who calledn Pobedonostev […]