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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] any other outside contacts in respect of it. If we are approached, we listen only.’ Elsewhere, without offering any evidence, West claims that the brilliant WWII black propaganda expert, Sefton Delmer, was a Soviet agent. In the mid-1950s Delmer was expelled from Egypt for being an SIS agent. President Abdel-Nasser, who played footsie with […]
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 […]