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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] proceedings in the first place. The problem all along was that Tony Blair’s unelected PR manager was 50 involved in the creation of what was effectively military propaganda, while the Cabinet was kept in the dark. And what Sir John said about the WMD scare-story was that such claims ‘were presented with a certainty […]
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 […]
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 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] Afghanistan, is just another term for assassination. Making cases, the principal tactic of federal drug law enforcement, meant selectively feeding and maintaining the drug trade, within the propaganda 6 When Allen Dulles, Harry Anslinger, and J. Edgar Hoover died, the government agencies each had left behind were powerful, entrenched bureaucratic institutions. These men were […]