The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Ukrainian neo-Nazis, and were defending Mariupol against Russian forces at the time of their tweet, it is conceivable that they might have been tempted to promote untrue propaganda stories. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was therefore approached for comment on the alleged destruction of its offices. Although the situation in the […]

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. […]

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) […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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 […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the victim of a Jewish plot. (p. 301) Joking aside, the volume provides a relentless chronicle of the role that the most vicious anti-Semitism played in the propaganda and activism of the British Far Right, at least until quite recently. Leese It is also worth drawing attention to an earlier book by Dan Stone, […]

The World That Never Was by Alex Butterworth

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 20Å10. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander As the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into a highly readable and entertaining (and occasionally […]

[PDF file]: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 20Å10. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander As the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into a highly readable and entertaining (and occasionally […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the 1929 Wall Street Crash, and that the banks, publishing, the cinema, theatre and ‘a large part’ of the press were ‘virtually controlled’ by them. Following Nazi propaganda, Bryant claimed that the Jews were racially discriminating against Aryans, so that it was becoming progressively more difficult for a gentile German to hold any kind […]

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