Terrorism: how the West can win

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] can’t bring herself to state that they were fascist outrages.) Given the patience these absurd examples could be multiplied 10, 20-fold. This book is mostly junk, mere propaganda. I had it with me to read on the train when I visited Colin Wallace. I showed him the list of contributors and mentioned the Jonathan […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, The Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.’(10) While visiting Parry’s site, take a look at ‘Gary Webb’s death: American tragedy’,(11) Parry’s […]

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university…….’ (1) Abroad, conscious of its poor image, HMG beefs up its propaganda machine. So it is announced that the Medialink Consultancy has been appointed to run the London Radio Service, an international English Language news service. ‘The Foreign […]

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] had been known to be a fraud for at least a year, had been ‘withdrawn’ by MI6. (2) The American-British-Australian relationship Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit-9/11 is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ which supported the US invasion of Iraq, […]

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‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] operations since the establishment of the Soviet Union, or that international front groups controlled by the Russian Communist Party have not systematically engaged in worldwide penetration and propaganda campaigns. It is nonetheless true that scholars have often hastened to deny the existence of genuine conspiratorial plots, without making any effort whatsoever to investigate them, […]

Secret State, Silent Press: new militarism, the Gulf and the modern image of warfare

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] White House were ‘tested’ in the morning when no cameras were allowed and the fine-tuned for later briefings which would find their way onto evening news bulletins.The propaganda lessons of Vietnam had been fully absorbed and the media were used (in the vast majority of cases quite willingly) to report and promote exactly what […]

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USA & the CIA

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] 1999, £8.95 These three books dovetail together rather nicely. The Lucas book is the first attempt I am aware of to try and describe the massive anti-communist propaganda effort made the US during the first decade of the Cold War. Lucas’ particular emphasis is on the private-public partnership this entailed: Mr Corporate Director and […]

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The Case of Otto Skorzeny

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] with Vatican help. After the fall of Peron, Von Leers temporarily left his Argentina Nazi paper Der Weg and, under the alias of Omar Amin, directed Nasser’s propaganda against Israel. His assistant in this work was another former member of Goebbels’ propaganda ministry, Dr. Gerhardt Harmut von Schubert, who later moved on to a […]

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Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] him a Polaroid photograph taken of the dead Green. This is awkward for the British state – and Taylor. Acknowledging this would be to give too much propaganda advantage to the IRA. So this is Taylor on Nairac: ‘There were rumours and allegations that Captain Robert Nairac, a legendary army intelligence and liaison officer […]

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Deacon also defends old friends – the Goldsmith/ Spiegel case, the nuclear power lobby, SDI etc – and reveals recent thinking on the spook-connected British right: ‘Russian propaganda has found its way into British schools….Christianity has in recent years been distorted into a “front organisation” for international communism . ……Friends of the Earth draws […]

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