Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] civilians in the process – indeed continuing to kill them even while the evacuation of Kabul was underway. This pretence of concern for women’s rights is a propaganda distraction intended to cover up both the scale of the defeat suffered by America and its allies. They also want to conceal the fact that all […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Lawrence Eagleburger – had dismissed administration claims of a dramatic rise in threat level,4 hence the virtually unprecedented efforts by the Bush regime in perception management and propaganda. This is downplayed by Harvey, as is the avowedly revolutionary transformation in US strategy brought in by Donald Rumsfeld to the Pentagon. The centrepiece here was […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] PalgraveMacmillan, 2018), anti-Semitism does not even appear in the index. Their study of the 2019 general election will, one suspects, be very different in this respect. 1 propaganda assault mounted on Corbyn from all sides, one can safely assume that the book played only a very small part in preventing that outcome. To save […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] actual trends in the country and offering them a new perspective on Russia’. It looks rather as if the gallery is a Russian equivalent of the cultural propaganda work carried out abroad by the British Council. How ironic that it staged an exhibition about the values of good housing and ‘alternative models of organising […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] here. Oborne wrote his weekly column for the Daily Mail exposing how ‘Boris Johnson was debauching Downing Street by using the power of his office to spread propaganda and fake news’. The column was politely declined and he was asked to write something else. He then offered the column to the Spectator but they […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] JFK: namely that those criticising Warren’s conclusion should be described as ‘conspiracy theorists’. The author notes that this turned out to be ‘one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time’; the ‘conspiracytheory label has become a powerful smear that, in the name of reason, civility, and democracy, pre-empts public discourse, reinforces rather […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] book is around 100 of his columns over the period 2014/15 during which the US tried to detach the Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence by propaganda and covert operations, while waging various wars in the Middle East. Roberts analyses the events week by week. He doesn’t believe a word the American government […]