Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Israel’s Interests’, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2003. 109 Quoted in Roy Greenslade, ‘Their Master’s Voice’, The Guardian, 17 February 2003. 110 ‘Murdoch Confesses to Propaganda On Iraq’, February 3, 2007, . 111 Andrew Grice, ‘How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war’, The Independent, 19 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Afghanistan, is just another term for assassination. Making cases, the principal tactic of federal drug law enforcement, meant selectively feeding and maintaining the drug trade, within the propaganda 6 When Allen Dulles, Harry Anslinger, and J. Edgar Hoover died, the government agencies each had left behind were powerful, entrenched bureaucratic institutions. These men were […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[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, […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] them to exercise their power more effectively. US imperial interests are best served by an unblinking engagement with the real nature of affairs, rather than with a propaganda version. But this honesty only stretches so far. There is no unblinking engagement, for example, with the problems that the Saudi regime has caused – and […]
