Broken Vows: Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] sketch-writers who reported the moment saw it as typical of New Labour’s desire to “spin”. Ask Blairites a direct question, and they will start force-feeding you with propaganda about their glorious achievements in health, transport and good old education.’1 Wilson’s view is very much Bower’s. Broken Vows tells us that the man once called […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] them to exercise their power more effectively. US imperial interests are best served by an unblinking engagement with the real nature of affairs, rather than with a propaganda version. But this honesty only stretches so far. There is no unblinking engagement, for example, with the problems that the Saudi regime has caused – and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] down the search results we find a copy of his newsletter from 1974 released by the CIA.7 This is a rather impressive if bizarre piece of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] basically saying that the US is engaging in eco-terrorism under the pretext of preventing, what might be called an ‘earthquake Pearl Harbor.’ Cohen was using the same propaganda coupled with old technologies and new advances in microwave weapons. Also in 1997, USAF’s Geophysical Directorate stated that their ‘Seismic program’ had been transferred to the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Robert Parry at the Consortiumnews wrote: ‘Few Americans understand the ugly history behind the Nazi-affiliated movements that have gained substantial power in today’s U.S.–backed Ukrainian regime. Western propaganda has made these right-wing extremists the 36 Section A paragraph 4 of the long document at . 37 38 For example . “good guys” versus the […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] cautious in his assessment: “Pipeline geopolitics is . . . only a subset of wider competition to dominate global energy markets,” he wrote in his 2018 State Propaganda report. “This was not about one specific project. It was about Syria’s unique geographical location, offering a range of potential routes to transport Mediterranean oil and […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Brian Crozier’s speech to the 1982 meeting of Le Cercle in which, amidst the standard (to me, comic) line of the enormous threat poised by the Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of 18 19 < https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/First_ever_documents_of_Le _Cercle.htm> the Foreign Office, the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]

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