Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of epic conflicts and battles), keeping their populations onside via political repression characterised by censorship, thought control, arbitrary detention and brutal ‘re-education’, along with cheap alcohol and propaganda on the part of the state and a captive media. Many commentators have drawn attention to examples of the way what was fiction in Nineteen Eighty-Four […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] them to exercise their power more effectively. US imperial interests are best served by an unblinking engagement with the real nature of affairs, rather than with a propaganda version. But this honesty only stretches so far. There is no unblinking engagement, for example, with the problems that the Saudi regime has caused – and […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cautious in his assessment: “Pipeline geopolitics is . . . only a subset of wider competition to dominate global energy markets,” he wrote in his 2018 State Propaganda report. “This was not about one specific project. It was about Syria’s unique geographical location, offering a range of potential routes to transport Mediterranean oil and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 18 19 < https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/First_ever_documents_of_Le _Cercle.htm> the Foreign Office, the […]

View from Bridge copo

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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 Bolden interview is at and the reference […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 36 Section A paragraph 4 of the long document at . 37 38 For example . “good guys” versus the […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

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[PDF file]: […] orientation is overseas: this is the territory of the Foreign Office and its think tank satellites like the Royal Institute for International Affairs – the political and propaganda apparatus of the overseas lobby. The Ideology of the Blairites It is not as if Mr Blair has made any attempt to conceal what he believes. […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age too there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.’ In his book, Propaganda, he wrote ‘The conscious and intelligent manipulation of organised habits and opinions of the masses…’ was necessary in a democracy, calling that ‘invisible government’. Like his […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] except the trade union dances. I have have had enough.’ All this despite the author being renowned as a solitary introvert and bookworm: it simply reeks of propaganda meant for an American readership. Of particular interest has been the question of when the Historic Diary manuscript was written. In the 1970s the House Select […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 16 co-authored with Wyatt Reed. 17 6 18 *new* Pennies dropping In The Times (27 November) one Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute, a free market, libertarian propaganda outfit in Washington, wrote a self-explanatory piece with the title ‘We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe’.19 Former Blair era Labour Minister Denis MacShane […]

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