Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] took this seriously. The claim is true in one profound but unstated sense: the Conservatives will continue to harass those who are not employed. Thirty years of propaganda against those dependent upon the state has resulted in a public climate hostile to almost all those claiming benefits: the ‘deserving poor’ category has now shrunk […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] 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 “good guys” versus the Russian “bad guys.”’ 39 None of this is mentioned in Elizabeth Pond’s ‘How Vladimir Putin lost […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] operations: for example, Operation Chaos against the domestic radical media; and, in the final section, ‘Coda: Afghanistan’, he shows how former CCF personnel were involved in the propaganda around the American support for the mujahideen in 4 The evidence, transcripts of recordings of JFK and brother Bobby discussing this, is at . Afghanistan. It […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] with apartheid South Africa or countering the apartheid analogy with evidence of the genuine differences between the two systems, Israel’s defenders have resorted to vitriol and recycled propaganda.’ The author finds the apartheid comparison an imperfect one: ‘Unlike white South Africa and many other colonial regimes, Zionists never banned miscegenation or kept people they […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] race – just like the USSR was during the first cold war. The encouragement of regional separatist tendencies within the People’s Republic, and the launch of a propaganda offensive against it via mainstream and liberal media outlets throughout the West, also recalls the strategy of ‘containment’ deployed against the USSR from 1947 until it […]