Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] influence the Communist Party contributed by occasionally boasting of its influence on the Labour Party left; 9 On IRD see Paul Lasmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-77 (Stroud, Gloucester: Sutton, 1998). On some of the American influences see Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War (London: Frank […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] done……. Beyond hypocrisy There’s a 1992 book by Edward Herman, Beyond Hypocrisy.37 I haven’t read this and, though it’s subtitled ‘Decoding the news in an age of propaganda’, the title is an apt shorthand description of American foreign policy. Thus the state which is apparently agitated about the use of ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] developed into colonies between the 17th and 20th centuries. The deep imperial interests, complex trade associations, and huge profits (potential or actual) meant that ‘postcolonialism’ – a propaganda word for reconstituted colonialism – was never going run smoothly, particularly in the face of rising Soviet influence in Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, and elsewhere in the […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] well as betrayed by their friends, and misled, even turned against, their own democracies. In their favour, signals intelligence probably shortened the Second World War, and covert propaganda may have helped bring down the Soviet Union (Jeffreys-Jones doesn’t seem certain about this). The record is mixed, but it is far from reassuring. Hence the […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] upon the willing collaboration of the Establishment and the Counter-Establishment in all its forms and factions. The means for maintaining this collaboration are mastery of language and propaganda and an enormous capacity to reward support (witting or unwitting) and punish opposition. 5 All of the above are attainable because of the degree of organisation […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay On the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of […]