SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] nondescript military clothing, without insignia….. and neither would we wear dog tags for identification. If we were killed, then the enemy would have a hard time making propaganda capital from our corpses. Our major task was reconnaissance, but we were conscious that our prime purpose was to set the pattern for more troops, both […]

Michael Ledeen again

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] close connections with the Italian secret service (SISMI) when living in Rome in the mid-1970s, in part through his associate Francesco Pazienza and his links to the Propaganda Due (P2) masonic network and its connections with the NATO – and intelligence-linked Gladio operation. At the time Ledeen was writing for The Daily American, for […]

A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] tin – it aims to run the world.’ (p. 81) About half the book is on Britain. There is a chapter on ‘The Hidden History of Corporate Propaganda’, on the Economic League and its forebears, such as the British Commonwealth Union. (But this section omits the fact that these groups were initially formed not […]

The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] American Right) or because it is a moral imperative based on ideology (the neo-conservative and liberal internationalist impulse). Until now, this reification of the West was a propaganda tool by one side in the Cold War or the plaything of intellectuals and of a certain school of right-wing radicalism. Now it is a practical […]

The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] as strictly military questions, and the North Atlantic Assembly works to influence the parliamentary members of individual countries. It falls within the brief of NATO to conduct propaganda and defend states the ‘infiltration of ideas’. Few citizens of NATO countries are aware of the whole apparatus to which membership commits them – e.g. Plans […]

Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-60

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] the basis for much of modern communication research.’ I would say: after the war the spooks and the military paid the academics to develop the techniques of propaganda with which to influence the perceptions of the American tax-payer and the subject populations of the informal American empire. (Alternatively, this shows how loyal American academics […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Martha Kunzel) certainly were. Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke, cited by Matthews, draws a clear distinction between the OTO and avowedly racist groups such as the ONT. Crowley did do propaganda work for Viereck (who had nothing to do with the OTO), but there’s a good argument to be made that A.C. also snitched on Viereck’s activity […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] 10 August 1991. An anti-nazi, he came to Britain in 1938 where he attracted the attention of the intelligence services. Worked with Sefton Delmer and others on propaganda work. In 1948 worked for Reuters and then The Observer under former SOE operative David Astor. (The Independent 31 August 1991). Christopher Holme, Radio Three producer, […]

RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] (CPNI) glossary: . Clive Walker, ‘Governance of the critical national infrastructure’, Public Law, Summer 2008, pp. 323-352. All 867 pages are available here: Public Administration Review; 68(3), May 2008, pp. 420-427. Linda Kaye, ‘Reconciling policy and propaganda: the British Overseas Television Service, 1954-1964’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 27(2), June 2007, pp. 215-236

Censored 2004

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] or ‘The Effort to Make Unions Disappear’ ever playing big on network news. Mainstream news outlets are turning out ever less news and ever more froth and propaganda, and it would be nice to have this trend reversed; that said, some stories are only ever going to appear in magazines with committed readerships. (Widely […]

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