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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

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 […]

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[…] 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.’ Oswald was tested twice on the rifle in the Marines. The first time he scraped into the middle of the Marines’ three […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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 […]

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[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] race – just like the USSR was during the first cold war. The encouragement of regional separatist tendencies within the People’s Republic, and the launch of a propaganda offensive against it via mainstream and liberal media outlets throughout the West, also recalls the strategy of ‘containment’ deployed against the USSR from 1947 until it […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Israel’s Interests’, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2003. 109 Quoted in Roy Greenslade, ‘Their Master’s Voice’, The Guardian, 17 February 2003. 110 ‘Murdoch Confesses to Propaganda On Iraq’, February 3, 2007, . 111 Andrew Grice, ‘How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war’, The Independent, 19 […]

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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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The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] troubling pattern of behaviour. We already know that organisations like the Integrity Institute, and its notorious sort of predecessor the Information Research Department, have anonymously distributed state propaganda through networks of journalists and academics. The State of Secrecy adds to these examples. We learn about British spies writing under pseudonyms for mainstream news organisations, […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] and after. In 2018-19 the Army’s information warfare and psychological operations unit, the 77th Brigade, secretly advised the Israeli military on ‘information operations’, namely psychological warfare and propaganda as well as the use of cyber warfare and digital platforms to destabilise insurgent groups.35 A 2020 agreement between Britain and Israel led to the development […]