Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] 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 the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department (IRD) was […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] point of view, they got two “hits” for the price of one: a smear on the CIA at a crucial moment and a strong dose of anti-US propaganda in a contested nation.’ Robert Kennedy suspected the Agency might have done it, and asked then CIA Director John McCone about its possible role. The CIA […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[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)
[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 72 (Winter 2016)
[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 […]