Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[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 […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[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 […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 9 in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] not gunmen at all, but innocent bystanders’. (p. 194) And that is Frank Kitson’s account of the Bloody Sunday massacre! He still complains about how the ‘republican propaganda machine’ succeeded in ‘making most of the Catholic population of Belfast think that I was a wicked fellow’. (p. 189) Colonel Wilford was awarded the OBE […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] what good work he had done.52 Compassionate Conservatism The always interesting William Clark has an analysis of so-called ‘progressive Conservatism’ on his site.53 ‘Progressive Conservatism, as a propaganda project, has two strands: the first is to capture the language of other parties to make the party seem progressive (this functions almost solely through repetition); […]

Conspiracy theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] 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 […]

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