[…] laptop’s twelve-inch screen we stand as high as Punch Sulzberger, or Rupert Murdoch.’ Neither predicts the demise of newspapers, ‘but it’s a world in decline, and a propaganda system in decline……We can get a news story from a CounterPuncher in Gaza or Ramallah or Oaxaca or Vidharba and have it out to a world […]
[…] currency, fearing another ERM-style debacle. (2) ‘New Labour’ is stuck in precisely the same way that the Conservative Party was stuck and it is entirely unclear whether or not a pro-single currency propaganda campaign like those described in Andy Mullen’s piece above would work with so much of the printed media being hostile to it.
[…] what is known as a ‘personal chair’ at Cambridge University, wrote KGB:The Inside Story (Hodder and Stoughton, 1990). The book is part of the British secret state’s propaganda campaign around the KGB defector Oleg Gordiefsky. Gordiefsky’s public role, the quid pro quo for the pension he is now receiving, is to bolster the key […]
[…] most striking example concerns Joseph Ball, who founded the Conservative Research Department back in the 1930s, which was then, and may still be, the Tories’ covert ops./black propaganda operation. Ball is an interesting figure in the clandestine history of this country whose significance can be measured by the infrequency with which his name appears […]
[…] any future referendums, ‘the government should remain neutral’. Cue apoplexy among the pro single currency groups at the prospect of not being able to use the state’s propaganda assets in the promised referendum on entry into the single currency. Hugo Young, a man who rarely if ever saw a Foreign Office line he couldn’t […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] many Cuban exiles. Throughout the period following Castro’s seizure of power, there has been a bloody war being fought clandestinely and more openly in the form of propaganda pumped from the USA seeking to undermine the government of Cuba. Bacardi have been at the forefront of these attempts, being linked to convicted terrorists and […]
[…] Mary Whitehouse case against the film ‘Scum’, which now obliges the IBA to vet potentially controversial programmes. Objections came from the Oman Government via Sultan of Oman’s propaganda adviser, Anthony Ashworth, ex IRD. Observer 29 July. See also Observer 26 June for events leading up to this. More police raids on bookshops reported in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to this test, millions of volumes were at risk of turning into dust; but if the dust didn’t get them they might spontaneously combust, claimed the 1987 propaganda film Slow Fires. By repeatedly presenting such untruths library administrators attracted millions of dollars of public money which was used to dispose of the very material […]
