The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] to take Mr Blake Knox’s word for it that he knows what he is talking about. Special Branch was, asserts Mr. Blake Knox, ‘the target of black propaganda from both republican and loyalist paramilitaries as well as the object of lurid fantasies on the part of some journalists’. (p. 208) On this basis, he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department (IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were they […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] when the BBC – which was supposedly impartial and above politics – could not. Another benefit that flowed from using Radio Luxembourg as an organ of British propaganda on the status of the Sudetenland was that its broadcasts were clearly ‘deniable’ as representing the views of the Chamberlain government. In 1940 the powerful and […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the Moral Majority and its successors. The British involvement with the Muslim world goes back much further. Oborne sees the Venerable Bede as ‘the father of English propaganda against Islam’ but after the First World War ‘the UK had become the greatest Muslim power in the world, holding sovereignty over approximately half the global […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Americans showed me that anything can be violated, including the rules that they themselves taught us. Without any regard to us, they used our intelligence information for propaganda press leaks. They wanted to mine certainty from unconfirmed suspicion and use it as an excuse for military action. We were supposed to play the role […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] whole, with Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher leading the way. Certainly the Nazis, both before and after they took power, made use of the Protocols as a propaganda tool, but a good case can be made that they reinforced – rather than created – their genocidal anti-Semitism. Hagemeister’s book also contains a useful chapter […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] which was certainly convenient for reaching an audience behind the Iron Curtain, Radio Nord looks just as likely to have been an arms-length, privately funded operation broadcasting propaganda to Eastern Europe. Radio Nord broadcast until June 1962 when the difficulties caused by the Swedish government restricting supply of the vessel resulted in her Page […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] PROFESSIONALS QUARTERLY (NIPQ) ………………………………………………………………. 98 NMIA NEWSLETTER ………………………………………………………………… 101 THE NUMBERS FACTSHEET …………………………………………………… 102 PEfilSCO PE ………………………………………………………………………………..106 POLITICAL WARFARE (PW) Intelligence, Acti’e Measures & Terrorism Report ………………….108 PROPAGANDA – DISINFORMATION – PERSUASIO (PDP) ……………………………………………………………112 THE RIGHT TO KNOW & THE FREEDOM TO ACT CARL’s First An1endment Monitoring Service …………………….114 SECRECY & GOVERNMENT BULLETIN (S&GB) […]

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