LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[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 […]

View from 92 copy

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[…] or 4 1 development would be a closely-held secret? The putative existence of such biological weapons developments by the US has been a recurring theme in Russian propaganda. Thus far they have apparently offered no actual evidence.5 *new* Trumpski? Russ Baker wrote this recently: In response to Trump’s saber rattling, Denmark says if Trump […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[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. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[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 […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] actual elements of the assassination? To me it does not, and I think Larry concluded the same thing for different reasons. Cord Meyer? He was a newspaper propaganda guy. Hunt obviously threw him in there to spice it up due to the controversy about his ex wife.’ 26 Putting LBJ on the list of […]

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