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 […]

Groupings on the British Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] contributions by Chalfont and Becker at the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference on terrorism (see book reviews in this issue) its purpose will be to spread misinformation and propaganda. The name reminds me of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and this may turn out to be another in the evolving sequence of intelligence […]

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Hacks, pols and PR

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] laptop’s twelve-inch screen we stand as high as Punch Sulzberger, or Rupert Murdoch.’ Neither predicts the demise of newspapers, ‘but it’s a world in decline, and a propaganda system in decline……We can get a news story from a CounterPuncher in Gaza or Ramallah or Oaxaca or Vidharba and have it out to a world […]

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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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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] David Floyd, the Telegraph‘s correspondent on Soviet Affairs. Floyd was on the books of the IRD. (21) IRD, run by the Foreign Office, was a Cold War propaganda outfit which had a close relationship with MI6; and especially with section IX, which dealt with the Soviet Union. Was the meeting set up by the […]

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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 […]

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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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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

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Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] justice’, with its procedures loaded against the defendant and the verdict predetermined. Laughland thinks Milosevich has been misrepresented by the Western media (which was conned by NATO propaganda) and outlines a serious case for this here. Running parallel to his account of the trial is a critique of the ICTY and its legal basis. […]

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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 […]

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