Some examples of corporate, cultural and state PR

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] climate change dominated British media, a subject he ignored. The President seemed unaware that Pope Benedict, the week before – doubtless with the upcoming Presidential speech in mind – gave his first as pontiff, priming global audiences about love, which coincides with China’s ‘Harmony’ PR , discussed below. Pope Benedict similarly outflanked the President […]

Let my people go

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] it has ‘never denied’ having manipulation weapons. (I received a phone call and two faxes from an Official Secrets Act Section 1(1) covered civil servant to re mind me of this, whilst on vacation, three days before recording an interview for a TV documentary that was screened nationally in the UK on 12 May […]

Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] the NF saw themselves as ‘Strasserite’ but there is yet another reason why the NF cannot be simplistically labelled Strasserite: Strasserism was only ever an attitude of mind, and a partial one at that, as opposed to a strategy. Thus the real capitulation and defeat for Strasserism in Germany occurred not as late as […]

The crisis

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] situation because there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said, for example by Larry Elliot in The Guardian every week.’ Well, I changed my mind about that and here are the bits I found most interesting or useful. Only one warning light on the UK economy: inflation The Bank of England’s […]

Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. Defining (a) what Nikola Tesla actually did, and (b) if he can be rescued from the cranks, is one of the great Everests of historical […]

Policing the Future

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] thereby to draw some very general conclusions about the nature and meaning of police power. I suggested that the audience might bear one very simple criterion in mind when considering the changing nature of police power, namely the high level of arrests over the last few years: 10,000 during the miners’ strike; 200-400 during […]

Iraq misc.

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think about the ‘perception management operations’ in ‘ Mind Games’ on the NATO Web site. (1) ‘Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of […]

Challenge to Democracy

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] but the effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, […]

Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] and though it is generally regarded as bad form to speak ill of the dead, this is a very poor book. This is Keith’s survey of the mind control story: Cameron, Delgado, Esterbrook, Persinger, West, HAARP – all the usual names are here and given cursory treatments in short chapters. But there is also […]

Value Wars: The Global Market versus the Life Economy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

John McMurtry London: Pluto Press, 2002, pb £15.99   I shouldn’t be reviewing this. I haven’t digested it properly and it is going to take some time to do so. But I don’t want to leave this for six months without promoting it. I used to try and preserve books in good condition, didn’t write […]

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