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 […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] originally celluloid and now are billions of digital signals. Hence it is no wonder that the ‘greatest US president’ was an iconic product of the film and propaganda industry which has done more to sell the US ‘way of life’ and its vision of the world than anything else, including Coca-Cola. Ronald Reagan, an […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 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

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

Broken Vows: Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] sketch-writers who reported the moment saw it as typical of New Labour’s desire to “spin”. Ask Blairites a direct question, and they will start force-feeding you with propaganda about their glorious achievements in health, transport and good old education.’1 Wilson’s view is very much Bower’s. Broken Vows tells us that the man once called […]

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 […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] basically saying that the US is engaging in eco-terrorism under the pretext of preventing, what might be called an ‘earthquake Pearl Harbor.’ Cohen was using the same propaganda coupled with old technologies and new advances in microwave weapons. Also in 1997, USAF’s Geophysical Directorate stated that their ‘Seismic program’ had been transferred to the […]

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