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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 […]

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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

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[…] the two accounts offer an interesting set of claims about the role of intelligence in the politics of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.15 FIMI YouTube is now littered with AI political propaganda. The material I have seen, mostly talking heads, is anti-Trump. And much of it is good, too. Indeed, the AI talking heads are more interesting – […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] popular consciousness and ‘incorporated into the political culture, shared especially by the upper circles of politicians, business elites, the military, and Christian institutions…..one of the most impressive propaganda achievements ever.’ This was facilitated by the fraudulent use and abuse of many treaties and numerous laws such as the Indian Removal Law and the Discovery […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[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 […]

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, […]

View from 92

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* FIMI YouTube is now littered with AI political propaganda. The material I have seen, mostly talking heads, is anti-Trump. And much of it is good, too. Indeed, the AI talking heads are more interesting – more coherent, better scripted – than their human counterparts. These films […]