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 State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[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, […]

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 […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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

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[…] 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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[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 […]

Rudolf Hess: Truth at last: The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with Hitler as well as to bring an unlikely peace offer to Britain. As others have done, the authors quickly demolish this argument – which was the propaganda that the Nazis released at the time. Firstly, the authors prove the flight was well planned and rational. The question is, and remains, just how much […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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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