The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council?58 or 55 or 56 Check the material on this Twitter stream from Piers Robinson from the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media at . 57 With everybody and their cousin trying to disinform us, this is about as ‘sticky’ an area as exists at the moment. […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] certainly not the naïve literateur, taken advantage of by Cold Warriors, that he presented himself as. Spender was, in fact, ‘well integrated with the British Cold War propaganda effort’. Which brings us to MacColl, Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop. The released Theatre Workshop file, covering the years from 1951 to 1960, has some 250 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] for a new intelligence assignment in Europe, Oswald provided information that Check the material on this Twitter stream from Piers Robinson from the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media at . 57 With everybody and their cousin trying to disinform us, this is about as ‘sticky’ an area as exists at the moment. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] his blog Craig Murray refers to Bellingcat thus: ‘Unlike our adversaries including the Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat, the Atlantic Council and hundreds of other warmongering propaganda operations. . .’ 15 One of their reports begins thus: ‘A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Bellingcat and other Russia-focused journalists. . .’ (emphasis added) or 16 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] exactly one week before the start of the new financial year? On the other hand, one might consider that MI5’s strategic use of AP to get its propaganda broadcast into as many newsrooms as possible represents shrewd economic thinking, only having to pay for one journalistic lunch instead of several. More serious than MI5’s […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] congenial external environment. Its outline became clear during the early 1970s, when a programme for international economic reform See Kevin John McEvoy, ‘Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)’, Contemporary British History, Volume 35 (2021), p. 603. Historians of modern Chile and the covert operations of the British state have good […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue

[…] Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay O n 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, antiwestern thinking. It is the Guardian of […]

GArrick Timmi text

Lobster Issue

[…] aware of his borough’s historic status, and he would no doubt have learned all about its glorious past during his formal education. Living alongside this flourishing pro-Soviet propaganda installation, and occasionally venturing inside it, can only have exercised a strong influence on Olaf’s developing mind. One might describe it as immersive indoctrination, and it […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] would be likely to become known by PIRA figures, as having the potential to make an impact on the republican target. However, whilst the focus of the propaganda was aimed at PIRA, it is also clear that the initiatives were not particularly focused or controlled. The initiatives certainly came to include within their scope […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a particular culture is sufficient grounds for breaching human rights laws, imposing economic domination or being immune to respecting the views of others. It’s pernicious and dangerous propaganda. It may have been and is influential, (but) it is simply not true – and never was. The historical evidence alone refutes it, whatever we make […]

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