Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] quite naturally, that they are more likely to behave in such ways. But their propensity for doing so is also bolstered by thirty years of laissez faire propaganda by businessmen, academics, politicians and much of the mainstream media which has promoted the idea that state regulation is an evil, that the ‘free market’ will […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the homepage at . 47 48 See . probably knew about Soviet responsibility for the war crime49 but, rather than rocking the allied boat, remained silent as propaganda was dispersed that placed the blamed on the Nazis. Even now, more than seventy-five years later, the historians of the FCO continue to make excuses for […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Orleans. The eponymous Reily was a rabid anti-communist who gave financial support both to Sergio Arcacha Smith’s Crusade to Free Cuba Committee and Ed Butler’s partially CIA-funded propaganda outfit, the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). The Reily vice-president, William Monaghan, was a former FBI agent and was a charter member of INCA. Jim […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis is generally correct (we might argue about ‘rogue […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] from any responsibility for the death of Otto Warmbler, the American student sentenced to fifteen years hard labour in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian and CIA links (the Christian connection was not that convincing […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] his diary! As far as New Labour’s foreign policy was concerned, MacShane discusses the situation in the Middle East, the demonization of Saddam Hussein by the ‘ propaganda machine’, and ‘the plain fact . . . that overthrowing a tyrant in the Middle East just opens Pandora’s Box and we have no politics of […]

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow Gerald Horne New York: Monthly Review Press, 2014 N o later than the Wilsonian propaganda campaign to bring ordinary US citizens and the world to support US intervention in World War I, did the inhabitants — at least the ‘white’ ones […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] end of the book his unwillingness to use such a term struck me as being at least as strange as the territory he is ‘mapping’. Conspiracy Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter Headpress; UK £13.99 US $19.95, p/b www.worldheadpress.com How things have changed! Not so long ago ‘conspiracy cinema’ would have meant […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] He said that it wasn’t Special Branch that monitored the magazine but the security services, who passed on to the Branch a lot of ‘verifications’; for ‘ propaganda to be honest’. Without naming anyone, he said that a lot of people associated with the magazine were ‘compromised’. He added that McCann wasn’t the only […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[PDF file]: […] CPGB member knew nothing of the Soviet money, and to most of them ‘Moscow Gold’ was a joke, at best; at worst just another piece of crude propaganda from the Right.2 No wonder the remaining CPGB members were so shocked in 1991 when they discovered that the right’s view of the CPGB as a […]

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