Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

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 Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] cautious in his assessment: “Pipeline geopolitics is . . . only a subset of wider competition to dominate global energy markets,” he wrote in his 2018 State Propaganda report. “This was not about one specific project. It was about Syria’s unique geographical location, offering a range of potential routes to transport Mediterranean oil and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Brian Crozier’s speech to the 1982 meeting of Le Cercle in which, amidst the standard (to me, comic) line of the enormous threat poised by the Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of 18 19 < https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/First_ever_documents_of_Le _Cercle.htm> the Foreign Office, the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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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[…] Robert Parry at the Consortiumnews wrote: ‘Few Americans understand the ugly history behind the Nazi-affiliated movements that have gained substantial power in today’s U.S.–backed Ukrainian regime. Western propaganda has made these right-wing extremists the 36 Section A paragraph 4 of the long document at . 37 38 For example . “good guys” versus the […]

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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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