The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] any future referendums, ‘the government should remain neutral’. Cue apoplexy among the pro single currency groups at the prospect of not being able to use the state’s propaganda assets in the promised referendum on entry into the single currency. Hugo Young, a man who rarely if ever saw a Foreign Office line he couldn’t […]

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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 […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a “considerable contribution” to the “morale” of the armed forces.’ On-line free sources There are two wonderful free […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The politics of the organic movement – an overview

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] the organic pioneers were ignored, but this is not the case: they posed a threat to the vested interests of the chemical fertilizer companies, who maintained a propaganda campaign against them in the pages of the farming press. Eve Balfour’s book The Living Soil (1943) was widely reviewed and by 1948 was in its […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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UDA: Inside the heart of Loyalist terror

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] thus its derision towards the British admin-istration for continuing to talk to and kow-tow to the terrorists, both Green and Orange, giving them state money, bankrolling IRA propaganda films and trying to nurture them as community representatives, because they see nothing beyond the now moribund Good Friday Agreement. Northern Ireland still needs a Labour […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Senate hearings document. Wick was also the organiser of the 1983 White House meeting (Lobsters passim) at which Rupert Murdoch and James Goldsmith became part of this propaganda effort. High on Wick’s agenda during his European trips was the building up of what the White House called a ‘successor generation’ of sympathetic European leaders. […]

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