The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: 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 […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] Under Golitsyn’s influence, Angleton came to believe that in 1959, the KGB had launched a massive deception operation designed to lull the U.S. government into believing Soviet propaganda about “peaceful coexistence” between capitalism and communism, with the goal of prevailing over the complacent West.5 The second KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko, arrived in 1964. An […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Dr John Beresford, with whom he formed the Institute for British-American Cultural Exchange, about which almost nothing is known.2 Shinkfield himself described it as ‘a semi-official British propaganda agency in the field of international cultural relations’. As to what it did: over the next few years Beresford and Shinkfield cultivated the widest possible social […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] on my computer. It was obviously written around 2004 and, as far as I can see, was never used. M ichael Moore’s film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ which supported the US invasion of Iraq, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Under Golitsyn’s influence, Angleton came to believe that in 1959, the KGB had launched a massive deception operation designed to lull the U.S. government into believing Soviet propaganda about “peaceful coexistence” between capitalism and communism, with the goal of prevailing over the complacent West.5 The second KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko, arrived in 1964. An […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the impression that Trotsky was the focus of all opposition to Stalin. The sympathy shown for the infamous ‘show trials’ coincides with the author’s view that their propaganda target was not domestic but foreign: namely that Stalin would not tolerate Western subversion, even if it meant sacrificing loyal communist dissidents to make the point. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] against him. Published in 2022 is another study of the subject which focuses on the campaign against Corbyn by non-Israel lobby forces. In their ‘Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn’s Political Assassination’, Florian Zollman and T. J. Coles47 describe in great detail the campaign in the British media against Corbyn by the MoD-NATO […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: 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 […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] a Polish historian’s conclusion in 2013. 13 ‘The assassination theory was made up by Germany to drive a wedge between the Poles and their Western Allies. Goebbels’s propaganda claimed that the Soviets killed Sikorski with the approval of the British, because he dared to denounce the Katyn massacre and turned to the Red Cross […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] page just does not convey it. But of course quite a bit of Nixon’s activities were supposedly secret. Surely a cuntocracy is dependent on a vast hidden propaganda apparatus? But such techniques of control are merely the basic methods by which an individual or a group asserts its cuntocratic orientation — its power and […]

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