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 25 (1993) £££
[PDF file]: […] CPGB member knew nothing of the Soviet money, and to most of them ‘Moscow Gold’ was a joke, at best; at worst just another piece of crude propaganda from the Right.2 No wonder the remaining CPGB members were so shocked in 1991 when they discovered that the right’s view of the CPGB as a […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[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 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 71 (Summer 2016)
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[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)
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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 […]