Perfidious Albion: an end to deceit

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] – and, in turn, found an echo in a wider public. And that electorate is becoming harder to convince despite – now almost because of – the propaganda. This is not only because other information sources are now more widely and immediately available, but because the British electorate is now more well-travelled and diverse […]

Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] is easily dismissed in the NED’s closed world. The ‘report’ is a seemingly interminable expression of faux surprise at other regimes’ xenophobic resentment towards foreign spies, black propaganda, heavily funded ‘protest groups’ and media, consultants and agent provocateurs fomenting civil unrest with the overthrow of the state as their aim. The Lugar Report’s sources […]

One Boggis-Rolfe or two?: Philby: The Hidden Years

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] Sorge,on a trip to England in 1929. He’d been on a mission to Los Angeles because Stalin thought the movies had a future as a means of propaganda and mass control. Sorge later gave the Soviets precise timings for the German attack on the Soviet Union and the Japanese attack in the Pacific. Philby […]

ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] was reported by the Baltimore Sun on October 20. The sources for this story do not give me confidence about its veracity. Radio Liberty is a CIA-funded propaganda station; and the Baltimore Sun has some kind of role in the Pinay Circle’s disinformation operations. (See Lobster 18 p. 22, column 2) It is entirely […]

Outlaws of America: The Weather Undergound and the Politics of Solidarity

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] American state and media. Here is one of the oddities of the group: they went from demos to bombs, almost missing out on the reading, writing and propaganda stage of the ‘normal’ left group’s development. Their major publications appeared while some of them they were on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list. Outlaws indeed. This […]

The Trouble With Harry: A memoire of Harry Newton, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] Heseltine, the Defence Secretary. Even she found no evidence to support this view. She also alleged that material gathered by MI5 was passed on to a counter propaganda unit, DS19, set up by Mr Heseltine in March 1983 to combat CND’s unilateral line. Those of us who remember the rabid speeches of Heseltine of […]

The Case Against Israel, and, The Power of Israel

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] the parameters to US foreign aid in the Middle East. The overseas networks play a major role in shaping the internal debate on US policy toward Israel. Propaganda associating Israeli repression of Palestinians as the righteous response of the victims of the Holocaust has been repeated throughout the mass media. President Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that […]

Directory of British Political Organisations, 1994

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of leading lights and other […]

Conservative Radicalism: a Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

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 […]

The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] 1971 version the IRA was actually trying to buy the arms. (7) The similarities lie in the way the British state used the arms find to make propaganda. Fig. 1 Illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property) […]

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