Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a particular culture is sufficient grounds for breaching human rights laws, imposing economic domination or being immune to respecting the views of others. It’s pernicious and dangerous propaganda. It may have been and is influential, (but) it is simply not true – and never was. The historical evidence alone refutes it, whatever we make […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.35 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] 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 […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.35 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Act was a political and economic assistance plan focussed on the reconstruction of parts of Western Europe damaged during World War II. It was heavily promoted by propaganda on both sides of the Atlantic as American generosity – compared to the acrimony of the postWorld War I treatment of the defeated belligerents. Thus the […]

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 […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.20 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

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 […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.10 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

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