Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] thus its derision towards the British admin-istration for continuing to talk to and kow-tow to the terrorists, both Green and Orange, giving them state money, bankrolling IRA propaganda films and trying to nurture them as community representatives, because they see nothing beyond the now moribund Good Friday Agreement. Northern Ireland still needs a Labour […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] Senate hearings document. Wick was also the organiser of the 1983 White House meeting (Lobsters passim) at which Rupert Murdoch and James Goldsmith became part of this propaganda effort. High on Wick’s agenda during his European trips was the building up of what the White House called a ‘successor generation’ of sympathetic European leaders. […]