Cold War stories 2

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] not as if there was an alternative that could command enough widespread support. As Ellwood described in the case of Italy, the site of the biggest ERP propaganda effort, the diffidence of the population and resistance from government and management was not enough to derail the process. The key question for the ERP in […]

Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency 1944-60

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] line, sometimes successfully. Quite why the rest of Whitehall put up with IRD’s incompetent meddling until 1976 remains a mystery: Carruther’s account of the politics of official propaganda does not get that deep. Anybody interested in IRD – or the wider issues of propaganda in British counter-insurgency policies – will find important new material […]

All the news that fits

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

Flat Earth News: An award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media Nick Davies London: Chatto & Windus, 2008, £17.99, For many taking a dissenting view of our national life, The Guardian and The Observer have long been part of our diet – the morning fix that sustains us in our […]

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Free Radio stations operating illegally during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike its more pop music oriented contemporaries, however, Radio Enoch’s output consisted solely of right wing political propaganda, albeit with a musical background. (1) Its origins lie with a group called People Against Marxism, which, in July 1978, set up Two Spires Radio, rejoicing […]

The Cecil King coup plot

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] later be used against the labour movement of Britain, was a well worn theme of left discourse in the 1970s, both in dramatic fiction and in left propaganda. One sees it in the canon of John Gould’s dramas for the BBC, during this period, such as The Donati Conspiracy and State of Emergency, and […]

Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] why or how the OTO ended up with a branch in California, though we could note that Crowley was in the US in 1915-1917 working for German propaganda, under George Viereck, (4) and may have left some adherents behind when he quit the country. In any event by 1941 Parsons had become its leader, […]

The Terrorism Industry (Book review)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] of Herman’s previous books on the media and disinformation, the excellent Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection and The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda. The opening section of the book takes the statistical approach adopted in The Real Terror Network, to prove that state terrorism, particularly in Latin America, has […]

Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Israel by one of its own citizens. ‘The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for growing the anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Sharon’s propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large communities with this mark, Many good people, […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] who are seeking the nation’s highest office.’ Factbook on Intelligence http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/facttell/index.html Updated version of the CIA Factbook on Intelligence, a history and guide to the CIA. German Propaganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ Nazi and East German propaganda, translated. ‘Includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people […]

Weapons of Mass Deception and Regime Unchanged

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Weapons of Mass Deception: The uses of propaganda in Bush’s war on Iraq Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber London: Robinson, 2003, p/b, £6.99 Regime Unchanged: Why the war on Iraq changed nothing Milan Rai London: Pluto, 2003, p/b, £10.99   The Rampton/Stauber book appeared about 6 weeks after the attack on Iraq ended and […]

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