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. […]

Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] a campaign of rehabilitation. Goldsmith himself joined in this campaign. In January 1981 he addressed the Conservative Media Committee in the House of Commons on ‘The Communist Propaganda Apparatus and Other Threats in the Media’. In his speech he quoted the Czech defector Major-General Jan Sejna who ‘admitted that the campaign by the German […]

Book reviews

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] not me that has to read her appalling books. RR Available in this country from The Alternative Bookshop, 3 Langley Court, Covent Garden, London. Ireland and the Propaganda War Liz Curtis, Pluto Press, 1984 I used to hate picking up Pluto Books, badly written garbage; but thankfully things have changed and we have recently […]

The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great difficulty, that the IPS was funded by American lefties, some of them […]

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 […]

Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] to Geneva where he met Felix Ermacore, UN Human Rights committee member responsible for Afghanistan. Ermacore, an Austrian Member of Parliament, has extensive links to Nicaraguan Contra propaganda groups and right-wing organisations such as IGFM (right-wing rival to Amnesty International) and the Internationale des Widerstands (Resistance International), bringing together anti-communist ‘freedom fighters’. Following Swarup’s […]

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] Industry, Centre for Policy Studies, Coalition for Peace Through Security, Common Cause, Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] by Peters, which the editor had baulked at. The largest group of articles are those commenting on or opposing Britain’s membership of the then EEC and the propaganda being put out in favour of it. The second biggest group is articles criticising the City of London. In the Financial Times? The last sighting I […]

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 […]

Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] material, though there were some peculiar letters from a Wilson enemy Hartley Shawcross. What the Tribunal did reveal was the involvement of the newly created Foreign Office propaganda unit, IRD, within the Labour movement. There was considerable press interest in 1962 in the East-West Traders who went to the Leipzig Trade Fair. Questions were […]

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