[…] of propagandistic sources as though they are respectable academic ones; and a related, if surprising, weakness, when it comes to considering BNP ideology and its provenance. The propaganda source referred to is Searchlight magazine, incessantly cited by Copsey as authoritative on fascist activity, strategy or simply factual developments. I have shown repeatedly elsewhere () […]
[…] was in fact forged by Leonard (now Sir Leonard) Usher, former mayor of Suva and editor of the Fiji Times, widely involved in production of Alliance Party propaganda. A Royal Commission of Inquiry was set up after the election to investigate Mara’s claim. It also looked at more substantive complaints from the opposition. Mara […]
[…] well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme opinions and were leaking black propaganda about their own government to the press? But despite the uncertainties still left in the wake of Hunt’s admission (what the American call a ‘limited hang-out’), […]
[…] with a world-wide community of other nationals, hold allegiance to each other rather than governments. More importantly, global populations were refusing to be fooled by Brand America propaganda. (Was Afghanistan under the Americans better off than it was under the Soviets?) America’s greatest ‘outreach PR’ failure, however, was among: a) the urban, often metropolitan, […]
[…] Clearly the dead man had been a member of the IRA; but he was only sixteen, and probably a low-grade operator. The IRA opened up a vociferous propaganda barrage, producing pictures taken seven or eight years earlier, when the youth was singing in a choir, and presenting us as having killed a choirboy (p. […]
[…] (9) (See review in Lobster 30) On the 1970s there are two sources worth a look. The major one is Paul Lashmar and James Oliver’s Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977 (10) (See review in Lobster 37) chapter 16. The other is a section of chapter 10 of Alistair McAlpine’s memoir Once a Jolly Bagman.(11) […]
[…] (CPNI) glossary: . Clive Walker, ‘Governance of the critical national infrastructure’, Public Law, Summer 2008, pp. 323-352. All 867 pages are available here: Public Administration Review; 68(3), May 2008, pp. 420-427. Linda Kaye, ‘Reconciling policy and propaganda: the British Overseas Television Service, 1954-1964’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 27(2), June 2007, pp. 215-236
[…] contributions by Chalfont and Becker at the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference on terrorism (see book reviews in this issue) its purpose will be to spread misinformation and propaganda. The name reminds me of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and this may turn out to be another in the evolving sequence of intelligence […]
[…] home running MI6, was tested to destruction. In his final chapter, ‘The New Agenda’, dealing with MI6’s future, Dorril drops the minor bombshell that the old black propaganda functions of IRD are up-and-running again with MI6. He maintains that a former MI6 officer (Tomlinson?) has alleged that ‘the bread-and-butter work’ of the service’s psychological […]
[…] Civil Servants show, the Board was told that I did have a job description which was classified ‘secret’ and that I was involved in disinformation or ‘black propaganda’. The members of the Board, as former senior civil servants, were cleared to receive classified information, but the MOD denied that any second classified job description […]
