Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age too there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.’ In his book, Propaganda, he wrote ‘The conscious and intelligent manipulation of organised habits and opinions of the masses…’ was necessary in a democracy, calling that ‘invisible government’. Like his […]

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

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[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 […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Its support for the CIA dated back to before the Bay of Pigs invasion, when it created another CIA front, the Cuban Freedom Committee, as an anti-Castro propaganda operation. Bennett, the son of Republican Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah, a prominent Mormon, was selected by Maheu’s successors to replace O’Brien at the Hughes […]

Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy by Kash Pramod Patel

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as Patel is concerned, this clearly showed that ‘the military brass is turning woke’. This is why the US ended up with ‘a military brimming with left-wing propaganda’ that identified climate change as the major threat confronting the USA: ‘That’s right. Not terrorism. Not China. Under President Biden, the military’s primary mission is to […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] as Patel is concerned, this clearly showed that ‘the military brass is turning woke’. This is why the US ended up with ‘a military brimming with left-wing propaganda’ that identified climate change as the major threat confronting the USA: ‘That’s right. Not terrorism. Not China. Under President Biden, the military’s primary mission is to […]

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

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Britannia Unchained, by Kwasi Kwarteng , Elizabeth Truss et al

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] contrary to the beliefs of many on the left, were a Several – and possibly all – of the authors have been associated with the cluster of propaganda outfits based at 55 Tufton Street in London. There is a very nice and informative portrait of these groups in a short film at . 1 […]

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