The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] the Twin Towers were feeble and incompetent. If it was a fake, could they not have manufactured more plausible Iraqi links? Why give al-Qaeda such a massive propaganda victory? And even if blaming al-Qaeda made any kind of sense, why do something so massive and so economically destructive? The same propaganda effect, the same […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] the Allies against Germany.(10) Umaru Bah examines his theories of development communication research and its involvement in ‘promoting US foreign policy objectives in general, and Cold War propaganda objectives in particular.’(11) Another academic, psychologist Carl Rogers,also had links to the CIA-funded Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.(12) Demanchick and Kirschenbaum provide the details […]

Market Killing: What the free market does and what social scientists can do about it

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] many books for the Glasgow University Media Group (Bad News, More Bad News etc.) and David Miller is the author of Don’t Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media (London, Pluto, 1994). However the book’s title is somewhat misleading. Although the book is partly about what the free market does, and has […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] input did it have from the new Research Information and Communication Unit, , set up last year by the then Home Secretary, John Reid, ‘to counter al-Qaida propaganda at home and overseas’?(8) RICU, one report told us, was tasked to degrade al-Qaida ‘as a brand’. If the notion of al-Qaida as a brand sounds […]

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] Industry, Centre for Policy Studies, Coalition for Peace Through Security, Common Cause, Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] by Peters, which the editor had baulked at. The largest group of articles are those commenting on or opposing Britain’s membership of the then EEC and the propaganda being put out in favour of it. The second biggest group is articles criticising the City of London. In the Financial Times? The last sighting I […]

Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] material, though there were some peculiar letters from a Wilson enemy Hartley Shawcross. What the Tribunal did reveal was the involvement of the newly created Foreign Office propaganda unit, IRD, within the Labour movement. There was considerable press interest in 1962 in the East-West Traders who went to the Leipzig Trade Fair. Questions were […]

Kitson revisited

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] Malaya. The sentiments expressed are a stark contrast to those in most discussions of ‘Terrorism’, academic and otherwise, which amount to little more than exercises in the propaganda war. With an established reputation as a counter-insurgency specialist, with the likes of Richard Clutterbuck singing his praises,(8) Kitson was given a one year defence fellowship […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a “considerable contribution” to the “morale” of the armed forces.’ On-line free sources There are two wonderful free […]

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