Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Mary Whitehouse case against the film ‘Scum’, which now obliges the IBA to vet potentially controversial programmes. Objections came from the Oman Government via Sultan of Oman’s propaganda adviser, Anthony Ashworth, ex IRD. Observer 29 July. See also Observer 26 June for events leading up to this. More police raids on bookshops reported in […]

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] to this test, millions of volumes were at risk of turning into dust; but if the dust didn’t get them they might spontaneously combust, claimed the 1987 propaganda film Slow Fires. By repeatedly presenting such untruths library administrators attracted millions of dollars of public money which was used to dispose of the very material […]

Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] control of its borders, a large (but unknown) number of Jihadist Muslim refugees set up shop in the UK – mostly in London – and began agitation, propaganda and training for Jihad against the decadent West.(12) I don’t think there is much doubt that something like this has happened, though the numbers remain unclear […]

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] PRA with the left. But by using the same methods of collecting information — garbage surveillance, infiltration of target groups, and the use of guilt-by-association in their propaganda — each of these three groups has perverted itself with clandestinism and denunciation for its own sake. This opinion of mine is based on statements from […]

America and the British Labour Party: The Special Relationship At Work

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] it worth explaining how this came about and how it has been sustained. There is, therefore, no reference to US labour attachés (Joe Godson et al), Atlanticist propaganda, (the Labour Committee on Transatlantic Understanding, British Atlantic Committee, BAP et al); no reference to State Department or Labor Department-sponsored visits; no reference to the RIIA, […]

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] Elsewhere the proceedings of a RUSI conference (British and American Approaches to Intelligence edited by Ken Robertson) gets praise, and Bob Woodward’s Veil gets slagged. This is propaganda. Our (ie US, NATO) intelligence services are good things; the Soviet version is a bad thing. Story ends. But it is nicely done and by the […]

The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] Calvin Coolidge. Before long, Bernays was helping Israel to lobby the US military and recasting India as a worthy recipient of $1bn-worth of aid. He became the propaganda mastermind in overthrowing Guatemala’s elected government on behalf of the United Fruit Company (who were worried that the country’s socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, […]

The limits of accountability

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] well as torture. Generally they have focussed on policy rather than operational details. Occasionally a committee will get tired of been used as a conduit for government propaganda and will assert its independence. The Foreign Affairs Committee has focused on the Foreign Policy Aspects of the War on Terrorism and this has led to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and its weapons potential. Some of these might have been true but there is so much disinformation and propaganda being generated by the US and UK intelligence services there is no way of telling with most of it. Three spectacular examples of fakery are worth […]

MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] and the armed forces.’ Burns adds: `Together with a corresponding increase in the popularity of British fascists and quasi-fascist organisations, the paper predicts an increase of “enemy propaganda” by the “subversive” left targeting universities, the civil service, and the armed forces. This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of […]

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