In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. […]
Tell me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq ed. David Millar London: Pluto, 2003, £12.99, p/back One of the downsides of appearing every six months is that occasionally books arrive just too late for the issue in which they should appear and by the time the next issue appears […]
[…] his view that his incarceration for illegal financial activities was a case of ‘religious persecution’.(10) To counter this deceptive imagery, which is sustained by systematic and extensive propaganda of the most transparent sort, some of the lesser-known political activities of the organizational complex run by Moon and his right-hand man, ‘former’ Korean Army colonel […]
[…] has survived on the Right since the 1920s is the Economic League, running a large-scale 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 […]
[PDF file]: Mad men? Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda Nicholas O’Shaughnessy Routledge, 2017, £29.99 (p/b) Colin Challen The title of this book is both arresting, yet banal. And very chilling. To deal with the last point first: the twenty first century’s highly developed concept and practice of marketing is that you identify your […]
[PDF file]: Spinfluence the Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses Nicholas McFarlane Carpet Bombing Culture, Darlington (UK) 2013, £9.95, h/b W hen I was offered this by the publisher I said it sounded a bit agitprop for Lobster’s readers; and so it is. But it is worth noting. The author is a New Zealand designer1 […]
[…] Cultural Cold War was to be waged had grown directly out of their political activities during the late 1940s. Above all, the principle on which the American propaganda effort was founded, that is cultural freedom, was exactly the one they themselves had been defending ever since the 1930s.'(16) So while there were shared ideas […]
Paul Lashmar and James Oliver Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK) £25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book – perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch’s British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been … Read more
[…] 1947: We demand that the Home Secretary make full use of all powers he possesses under the existing law to prevent the spreading of Fascist and anti-semitic propaganda and we urge the Government to introduce legislation making such propaganda illegal in this country.(23) D. H. Snell, secretary of a branch of the Amalgamated Society […]
[…] He is well versed in the intricacies of the Information Research Department, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other agencies of the formal apparatus of Cold War propaganda and combines this with a detailed, analytical knowledge of the British and US film industries. The author has a fascinating chapter on the screening of George […]
