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

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] the Falklands War) and its determination to protect British culture and ‘character’ from ‘alien’ influences, including mass immigration. This nationalist discourse has featured increasingly significantly in Party propaganda ever since William Hague succeeded John Major as leader in 1997 and has been central to its pitch to the electorate in both the 2017 and […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 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.’ Robert Kennedy suspected the Agency might have done it, and asked then CIA Director John McCone about its possible role. The CIA […]

Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] elsewhere. Grange, now dead, subsequently resigned his post while under investigation for failing to investigate a judge accused 1 Rose later spread some of the Iraq War propaganda and then tried to rehabilitate himself with an article in the New Statesman openly admitting that he had for years been open to ‘manipulation’ by security […]

view from bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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