[PDF file]: […] He said that it wasn’t Special Branch that monitored the magazine but the security services, who passed on to the Branch a lot of ‘verifications’; for ‘ propaganda to be honest’. Without naming anyone, he said that a lot of people associated with the magazine were ‘compromised’. He added that McCann wasn’t the only […]
[PDF file]: […] than British society has been changed by the far right. The closing chapters focus on digital activism and the role the far right plays in churning out propaganda and channelling outrage. Here the British far right becomes something both less and something more: whatever it lacks as an effective political body it retains the […]
[PDF file]: […] My limited knowledge of Italy and Italian doesn’t permit me to review Willan’s latest work on the world of Roberto Calvi, the Vatican, the strategy of tension, Propaganda Due, Archbishop Marcinkus, Operation Gladio, the funding of the Italian Christian Democrats, Socialists, Polish Solidarity, the Mafia, freemasonry and the rest. But beyond a general endorsement […]
[PDF file]: […] forty odd years without acknowledging the pernicious influence of Rupert Murdoch. His particular brand of journalism has also infected American politics. Think of Lying Donald’s own personal propaganda news station, Fox News, which is provided by Murdoch. Unfortunately, there is no discussion of Murdoch and his influence in the USA in Hersh’s book. Surely […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] which has been persistently cutdown in the City’s interests for the past 20 years. Wrong. According to figures produced in 1999 by the City of London’s own propaganda outfit, British Invisibles – which may be presumed to exaggerate somewhat in the City’s favour – the 9 The notion had been at the core of […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘to be given an off-the-record briefing by the then head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett….. Sir John warned them that the Taliban were using Sun stories as propaganda and that they were damaging British military morale’. Brooks apparently was having none of this, but Murdoch promised to tone the attacks down. It never happened. […]
[PDF file]: […] to 2017, focus groups were helpful in developing the theme of his uselessness. 12 Featherstone p. 246 Samuel C. Woolley & Philip N. Howard, ‘Political Communication, Computational Propaganda and Autonomous Agents’, in International Journal of Communication 10(2016), at < http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6298/1809>. 13 The Huffington Post ran a focus group story which purported to show how […]
