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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] film rights to the book and then hired Louis de Rochemont as producer. Cohen also wrote a lengthy article on the film for Animation World Magazine. ‘Animated propaganda during the Cold War’ in the issue dated 21 February 2003. (Also available at ). An edited version was published in The Guardian 7 March 2003 […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] Communist Party after the war. But there’s the paradox: while I was protesting about US bases in Scotland, I was sucking down huge amounts of American cultural propaganda: books, music, films. Aged 16, dressed like Jack Kerouac, I dreamed of playing trumpet like Miles Davis and harmonica like Little Walter. Who destroyed the Soviet […]