Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] American Right) or because it is a moral imperative based on ideology (the neo-conservative and liberal internationalist impulse). Until now, this reification of the West was a propaganda tool by one side in the Cold War or the plaything of intellectuals and of a certain school of right-wing radicalism. Now it is a practical […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] to scab together a televised tape of the exchanges that an apparently unwitting Jean Kirkpatrick was to show the UN’s Security Council. The reaction to the Administration’s propaganda initiative were immediate. The political strength of the peace movements in both England and Germany, muscular enough to have kept the U. S.’s Pershing II and […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] we have our methods.’ He was promoted local (unpaid) captain. After the surrender of the last Italian garrison at Gendar he spent 1942 running cross-frontier intelligence and propaganda against French Somaliland which was still in Vichy hands. By then he had probably more practical experience of all aspects of field work than any other […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] Party and British industrial capital; and even among the corporatists there were divisions.8 Frank Longstreth called this network – of BCU, Industrial Group, FBI and other employer propaganda groups of the period, such as the Economic League – the Preference Imperialists, and noted their links to the earlier Midlands manufacturing-based Tariff Reform League.9 As […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a right-wing leader. As a footnote to these events they examine the role of the “black” propaganda unit in Northern Ireland during the period leading to the downfall of the Power Sharing Executive. They make sense of Harold Wilson’s complaints when he resigned […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] later wrote: ‘Since the war, Luce, the eternal seeker of power, had achieved it more and more by the cleverness of his concealment of increasing amounts of propaganda in his publications, which were not generally known to be propagandist. The manipulative corruption of the Lucepress7 worked on two levels – the readership which was […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] being in some way different from the nuclear weapons of capitalist states.60 Delusions about the nature of Soviet society were maintained and criticism of it deflected as propaganda created by a malevolent capitalist west. But today’s Russia has little to do with the former Soviet Union. Yes, there is a complex back story to […]
[PDF file]: […] being in some way different from the nuclear weapons of capitalist states.31 Delusions about the nature of Soviet society were maintained and criticism of it deflected as propaganda created by a malevolent capitalist west. But today’s Russia has little to do with the former Soviet Union. Yes, 28 By email Mr Klarenberg told me […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up at the onset of the Cold War to counter Soviet Communist Bloc propaganda, by monitoring, conducting research and providing unattributable briefings to journalists and others. 3. By the time I joined, IRD’s terms of reference had widened to include […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] . Barry Zorthian (1920-2010) was head of USIA/JUSPOA (Joint United States Public Affairs Office) in Saigon from 1964 until 1968. JUSPOA was the central office for press, propaganda and psychological operations in the US mission in Vietnam. The conference was ‘The American Experience in Southeast Asia 1946-1975’, Washington, DC 29-30 September 2010. See . […]