Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] MP CON 1974-79 COUNCIL OF GB-USSR ASSOC 1977-79 CHATHAM HOUSE ON LOTS OF COMMITTEES A MEMBER OF HESELTINE’S DS 19 GROUP. WAS CLOSELY INVOLVED IN THE ANTI-CND PROPAGANDA EFFORTS. BLATHERWICK, DAVID ELLIOT SPIBY OBE (1973) B 13.7.41 MI6 (C) 1964 MECAS 1966 3RD LATER 2ND SEC FO 1968 KUWAIT 1970 DUBLIN 1973 1ST SEC […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] 1971 version the IRA was actually trying to buy the arms. (7) The similarities lie in the way the British state used the arms find to make propaganda. Fig. 1 Illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property) […]

Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] justice’, with its procedures loaded against the defendant and the verdict predetermined. Laughland thinks Milosevich has been misrepresented by the Western media (which was conned by NATO propaganda) and outlines a serious case for this here. Running parallel to his account of the trial is a critique of the ICTY and its legal basis. […]

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] we have our methods.’ He was promoted local (unpaid) captain. After the surrender of the last Italian garrison at Gendar he spent 1942 running cross-frontier intelligence and propaganda against French Somaliland which was still in Vichy hands. By then he had probably more practical experience of all aspects of field work than any other […]

Conservative Radicalism: a Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] Conservative Students detested socialism and communism and shared the Reagan administration’s view of the Soviet Union as ‘the evil empire’. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be […]

Deadly Illusions

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] research and flights to and fro between Moscow, London and the United States. Who is reading this stuff? Well, there is a group of a few dozen Anglo-American scholars of espionage history, many of them witting or unwitting carriers of state propaganda — the “useful idiots’ of NATO. Apart from them, I have no idea.

Books forthcoming

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] has written for the new Encounter magazine. Michael Scammel, who has just published a massive biography of Solzhenitsyn, is turning to a study of the CIA-funded anti-communist propaganda operations of the 1950s. No doubt this will include Encounter ….. September should see the publication of Henry Hurt’s Reasonable Doubt: the assassination of John F. […]

Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] control of its borders, a large (but unknown) number of Jihadist Muslim refugees set up shop in the UK – mostly in London – and began agitation, propaganda and training for Jihad against the decadent West.(12) I don’t think there is much doubt that something like this has happened, though the numbers remain unclear […]

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