American PR and Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] with a world-wide community of other nationals, hold allegiance to each other rather than governments. More importantly, global populations were refusing to be fooled by Brand America propaganda. (Was Afghanistan under the Americans better off than it was under the Soviets?) America’s greatest ‘outreach PR’ failure, however, was among: a) the urban, often metropolitan, […]

Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] home: when a foreign intelligence service collects and analyzes information about its own citizens, conducts operations at home (assassinations, the destruction of oppositional organizations, the distribution of propaganda) invented for use abroad, or employs at home without due deference to the Constitution other methods to which it has become habituated in the foreign alleys […]

Parliamentary Questions; Anti-Labour leaflet

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] win any important section of the working class to anti-imperialist positions, even where it is subjectively anti-capitalist. The situation in Northern Ireland highlights the urgency of doing so. If effective solidarity action is to be achieved, a considerable work of propaganda and demystification in Britain will be needed. VOTE LABOUR 7 Carlisle Street, London, W1

SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] home running MI6, was tested to destruction. In his final chapter, ‘The New Agenda’, dealing with MI6’s future, Dorril drops the minor bombshell that the old black propaganda functions of IRD are up-and-running again with MI6. He maintains that a former MI6 officer (Tomlinson?) has alleged that ‘the bread-and-butter work’ of the service’s psychological […]

Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] Civil Servants show, the Board was told that I did have a job description which was classified ‘secret’ and that I was involved in disinformation or ‘black propaganda’. The members of the Board, as former senior civil servants, were cleared to receive classified information, but the MOD denied that any second classified job description […]

Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft: book 1, The Nine

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] of sinister forces may be discerned.’ But ‘nexus’ and ‘matrix’ are like synchronicity, implying causality without demonstrating it. Take another example. The author discusses the wartime OSS propaganda career of the writer Hans Habe and links this to the murder in 1968 of Habe’s daughter, Marina. He writes: ‘Marina had been known to the […]

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] the position of Mr. Moussadek’ and that the ‘ideal man to do it would be Dr. Zaehner’, an Oxford lecturer who had been ‘extremely successful in covert propaganda in 1944’ in Iran.(31) Zaehner was swiftly dispatched to Iran by the Labour government to aid the fall of Musaddiq, for which he was provided with […]

The Red Hand

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] Despite having read Paul Foot’s book on Wallace, on p. 70 he states that Wallace ‘seems’ — seems! — ‘to have worked on intelligence matters and ‘black propaganda’ ‘, and then provides an inaccurate account of the Ulster Citizens Army (UCA) story. (On which see my piece in Lobster 14). Bruce has problems with […]

Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] action sure to short-circuit the Official IRA’s plan (of a take-over on the Cuban model) was Dublin intervention in Northern Ireland. When this seemed likely, a major propaganda campaign was mounted (by the OIRA), directed primarily against Blaney, Haughey and Boland, the three ministers who, in varying degrees, were seen as supporting some kind […]

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 […]

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