[…] December 1981 Time 8th June 1981 New York Times 17th November 1981; Searchlight October 1981 Panorama (Milan) 10th August 1981 French masons, part of a so-called ‘ propaganda’ cell, conspired against Louis XVI in the name of the memory of Jacques De Molay. (Michael Baigent et al, Holy Blood, Holy Grail. (1983) pp52/53Here it […]
[…] in direct interference in the politics of that region. After their first victory in November 1952, in Egypt, the two services realised that their combined efforts would produce results: hence it was followed by the Iranian coup. Contrary to the CIA’s propaganda the Iranian coup was not an American operation but a joint MI6-CIA operation.
[…] a campaign of rehabilitation. Goldsmith himself joined in this campaign. In January 1981 he addressed the Conservative Media Committee in the House of Commons on ‘The Communist Propaganda Apparatus and Other Threats in the Media’. In his speech he quoted the Czech defector Major-General Jan Sejna who ‘admitted that the campaign by the German […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] not me that has to read her appalling books. RR Available in this country from The Alternative Bookshop, 3 Langley Court, Covent Garden, London. Ireland and the Propaganda War Liz Curtis, Pluto Press, 1984 I used to hate picking up Pluto Books, badly written garbage; but thankfully things have changed and we have recently […]
[…] There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great difficulty, that the IPS was funded by American lefties, some of them […]
[…] to Geneva where he met Felix Ermacore, UN Human Rights committee member responsible for Afghanistan. Ermacore, an Austrian Member of Parliament, has extensive links to Nicaraguan Contra propaganda groups and right-wing organisations such as IGFM (right-wing rival to Amnesty International) and the Internationale des Widerstands (Resistance International), bringing together anti-communist ‘freedom fighters’. Following Swarup’s […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the organic pioneers were ignored, but this is not the case: they posed a threat to the vested interests of the chemical fertilizer companies, who maintained a propaganda campaign against them in the pages of the farming press. Eve Balfour’s book The Living Soil (1943) was widely reviewed and by 1948 was in its […]
[…] 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 […]
