Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] came to dominate the mass media; and whose descendants dominate it today. In 2017, a real estate mogul from New York City, the original headquarters of the propaganda machine that created Woodrow Wilson, became the 45th president of the United States. The country has been waging war almost continuously since 1945, most recently its […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] which we could certainly say this: thanks to the barely regulated funding of political parties16 and campaigns – and the entirely unpoliced use of the Net for propaganda – Cummings and Cambridge Analytica did a competent job of flooding peoples’ electronic devices with anti-EU messages. Many of them lies. Was this critical to the […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] anyone checking on the name’s associations.1 5 Between 1961 and 1963, overlapping the creation and publication of Burgess’s novel, Dr Adams was policy director of the CIA-funded propaganda station Radio Free Europe, broadcasting to Soviet satellite states.16 So the name of vellocet’s inventor is associated with repression, and the contemporary academic who calledn Pobedonostev […]