[…] 3 Harry Irwin NOW! Gregory Voysey writes: In Lobster 17 (pp14-16) you note that Now!, a magazine owned by Sir James Goldsmith, was used to further the propaganda aims of the Pinay Circle. Now! was also involved in a scheme to discredit President Carter during the 1980 presidential campaign. This involved luring his brother, […]
[…] the list of some 70 prominent figures who contributed statements advocating Anglo-American ‘reunion’ to the June 1898 issue of Stead’s Review of Reviews, an issue devoted to propaganda for “an informal Association of Friendly Fellowship” for promoting common action throughout the English-speaking world. On the list are many figures who were members of the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] return. Immediate, positive results may be impossible to achieve.’ Why did it fail? Apart from the obvious point that few in the Middle East will believe American propaganda, a point which Collins cannot make, Collins notes: ‘The increase in the number of satellite television news services and internet connections makes it ever more difficult […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] details tells us, is based in Cuba, the book’s subtitle is ‘Cuba Opens Secret Files’, and the conclusion seems to be that this is a piece of propaganda by the Cuban Government. And it is crap. The book is in two sections. The first 126 pages consist of Ms Furiati’s account of the assassination. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] is that the only sector of the economy specifically referred to is the City of London (‘our financial services’) – a sector which, according to the City-funded propaganda organisation British Invisibles, is only 6.4% of the UK’s Gross Domestic Product.(18) There is no reference to the rest of domestic economy or to the exchange […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] – 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 […]
