View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] He is In this column in Lobster 87 I mentioned two of his recent essays which are online. They are ‘UK “Black” Productions: Forgeries, Fake Groups, and Propaganda, 1951–1977’ at and ‘The Information Research Department, Unattributable Propaganda, and Northern Ireland: Promising Salvation but Ending in Failure?’ at 1 . 2 1 self-described there as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[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 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] from the point of view of reporting news, then yes, here, of course, the media will no longer have such relevance.18 Zekomanda saturated social media with electoral propaganda while telling potential voters almost nothing about what Zelensky stood for. This online astroturfing had been cued well in advance. In the first series of Servant […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The CIA as Organised Crime How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[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 […]

lob81-british-gladio2

Lobster Issue

[…] in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate ” propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ In short: this speakers’ list makes no sense for people being trained to run a genuine ‘stay behind’ network – […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[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 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] from the point of view of reporting news, then yes, here, of course, the media will no longer have such relevance.18 Zekomanda saturated social media with electoral propaganda while telling potential voters almost nothing about what Zelensky stood for. This online astroturfing had been cued well in advance. In the first series of Servant […]

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