Gaian Democracies: Redefining globalisation and people-power

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] of a purposeful human system we have called the “Global Monetocracy” …… The elites of the Global Monetocracy use the power of property, personality, tradition, technology, myth, propaganda, the media, government, professional and technical expertise, the judiciary, and the police, patronage and, crucially, the power of ideology.’ (pp. 11 and 12) Which is what […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] copy is available on request from Olivier Schmidt in Paris on tel/ fax 33 1 40.51.85.19. Exposed! The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda Watch – the Right Pamphlet Number One This is an anonymous, 40 page, A5 pamphlet which analyses the Mackenzie personnel, their affiliations and some of its […]

The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] 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 […]

Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] 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, […]

What is Opus Dei?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] promoting their particular reactionary policies? The book has certain problems which will make it difficult for some to read, not the least the constant repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia […]

More Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] 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. […]

Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Iraq misc.

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] 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 […]

Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] 2005: when credible allegations as serious as this are made, they have to be the subject of independent investigation, irrespective of how they might be used as propaganda. What makes Jonty Brown’s book convincing is the fact that, like Fred Holroyd, he does not condemn the RUC (the Police Service of Northern Ireland in […]

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