Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] in education since this nonsense was introduced there. Tomlinson notes after this section that his immediate superior was passing as genuine CX what Tomlinson knew to be propaganda from one faction in the Balkans war: ‘ was blatantly ignoring my judgements as the officer on the ground so as to satisfy targets imposed by […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] in court they either might or might not be prepared to give evidence.’ I never decided whether I believed this or not. The high point of his propaganda activities was probably the publication in 1974 and 1979 of The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] and 1986, 14, mostly politicians, appear in the not very extensive index to Kelsey’s book, but Kelsey doesn’t mention this programme. How important this and the other propaganda operations carried out by CIA and State Department fronts are, I don’t know. But it all helps. In a way it would be reassuring to know […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] 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. […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] said that Plimpton was ‘very close to the Congress of Cultural Freedom and very involved with their activities’. This was all part of Eisenhower’s scheme to ‘privatize’ propaganda. The Congress of Cultural Freedom, one of whose original members was Tennessee Williams, played an important role in all of this. Notes 1 It’s cited by […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated, Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it propaganda inspired by the terrorists and their supporters….’ (emphasis added) Boy, has Dillon changed his tune! As usual with British authors working this field, most of his […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] 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 […]