Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] years ago, my co-author and I published our fourth book. It was called Going South (Palgrave Macmillan), and predicted that Britain was on course to becoming Th ird World in economic and social terms. or 10 11 12 4 Not everyone was a fan, and a rival school of thought suggested everything was going […]
[PDF file]: […] data uncovered by their app. The one for June 2022 included this The top five Canadian Green-rated websites in terms of their engagement during the first th ird of 2022 included CTVNews.ca, CBC.ca, GlobalNews.ca, ThePostMillennial.com, and Narcity.com. The top five Red-rated websites in Canada included RebelNews.com, JCCF.ca, TheNationalTelegraph.com, ThePulse.one, and GlobalResearch.ca. In the U.S., […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] republics with large Islamic populations. (p. 225) And there were phoney radio stations, newspapers, pamphlets, faked printed material of every kind, with the Information Research Department ( IRD), the propaganda/psy-ops unit which hovered between the Foreign Office and SIS, at the centre of it. ‘Fake news’ is nothing new: IRD generated mountains of it […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] network consisted of: the Economic League and the Aims of Industry; MI5 and local police Special Branches; the state’s anti-communist research/propaganda/psy-ops outfit, the Information Research Department ( IRD); IRD’s media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the National Association for Freedom (NAFF), and Eden would go on to work with Crozier’s ‘Shield.’ 2 0 After the closure of the Information Research Department ( IRD), Shield worked to provide briefings on the alleged Communist threat for the leadership of the Tory Party. Crozier also stepped into the gap caused by the […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] that the Soviet Union might win the Cold War, he asserted: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversive arm of the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department ( IRD) was destroyed in a complex operation in which the CIA traitor, Philip Agee, played a leading part.’4 At . Teacher writes that ‘the most important additions […]