Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] as Smock was concerned, America was already suffering from ‘a serious political virus’ when the pandemic arrived. ‘Trumpism was spread from person to person with lies, deception, propaganda, and with bullying and smear tactics’. Trump’s rallies were important spreaders of the infection. As a ‘disease of the mind’, it could also be spread by […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Aden and the Northern Ireland civil rights crisis’, on the Net. Sadly – and stupidly – access to or 22 Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998) 23 or 24 25 Christopher Mayhew, War of Words: a Cold War Witness (London: I. B. Tauris, 1998) p. 46. […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] of Christianity against the decadence of Western social liberalism (hence the anti-PC stance of the current regime).1 ‘Promotion of illegal drugs and of alcoholism, degenerative art, prostitution, propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia, offences against religious and national feelings are those openly antinational and anti-social manifestations of the perverse liberalism that should be banned unconditionally.’ […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] on 2 January 2016. It was alleged that, in the early hours of New Years Day, the then 21 year old Otto Warmbier had stolen a state propaganda poster1 from a ‘staff only’ area of the hotel (the Yanggakdo Hotel, the primary hotel for international tourists) where his tour group was staying. As the […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] ‘Netanyahu is being feted in Number 10, meeting the PM, followed by lunch, and then we let him use the FCO media suite to peddle his pro-settlement propaganda. We are supine, lickspittle, insignificant cowards. I am ashamed of my government. Instead of sucking up to him we should have taken offence and called him […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] civilians in the process – indeed continuing to kill them even while the evacuation of Kabul was underway. This pretence of concern for women’s rights is a propaganda distraction intended to cover up both the scale of the defeat suffered by America and its allies. They also want to conceal the fact that all […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] Lawrence Eagleburger – had dismissed administration claims of a dramatic rise in threat level,4 hence the virtually unprecedented efforts by the Bush regime in perception management and propaganda. This is downplayed by Harvey, as is the avowedly revolutionary transformation in US strategy brought in by Donald Rumsfeld to the Pentagon. The centrepiece here was […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[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 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] down the search results we find a copy of his newsletter from 1974 released by the CIA.7 This is a rather impressive if bizarre piece of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as […]