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 […]
[…] time criticising but little encouraging progress. (p. 1) Even at this early stage, before the dispute was formalised, clear political differences were revealed, on the nature of propaganda, the use of revolutionary rhetoric, the likelihood of state repression and so on. Meanwhile, debates which had continued beneath the surface about the NF’s future strategy […]
[…] (G 17.2.69) 1970 FCO CHILD, CLIFTON JAMES OBE (1949) B 20.6.12 1940 ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS 1941 FO POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT. COVER FOR PWE. PART OF DELMER’S ‘BLACK’ PROPAGANDA TEAM. IN CHARGE INTELLIGENCE SECTION 1946 HEAD OF AMERICAN SECTION RESEARCH DEPT 1958 AFRICAN SECTION 1962 DEPUTY LIBRARIAN AND KEEPER OF THE PAPERS FO 1967 CABINET […]
[…] of the well known stories planted in the media by Information Policy, the Army psy-ops unit in Northern Ireland in which Wallace worked, we are told: ‘The propaganda war continued with a new committee chaired by Michael Cudlipp and staffed by representatives of the North Ireland Office, the RUC and the army; including Jeremy […]
[…] of Operations (military administration). Templer was an absolute dictator, and as dictator was able, eventually, to achieve the kind of comprehensive and coordinated intelligence, police, military and propaganda operation which is at the heart of Kitson’s thesis, but which was never really achieved in Northern Ireland. One of the striking sections of the Templer […]
[…] unrest among the natives by the classic Imperial methods which had worked so well in Malaya against the Communist guerillas – a co-ordinated intelligence drive, a big propaganda campaign, mass round-ups of suspects, attacks on guerillas’ arms-supplies and cross-border sanctuaries – and then, if all else failed, negotiations from strength. None of these grand […]
[…] of Trotsky and key mediator between the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks who arranged, starting in 1915, for the flow of German gold into Russia that funded the propaganda campaign of Lenin’s little band of anti-war Marxists. Some Russian revolutionaries grew to distrust this erratic and ‘Falstaffian’ figure, with his ‘fat, fleshy, bulldog-like head’; () […]
[…] MP CON 1974-79 COUNCIL OF GB-USSR ASSOC 1977-79 CHATHAM HOUSE ON LOTS OF COMMITTEES A MEMBER OF HESELTINE’S DS 19 GROUP. WAS CLOSELY INVOLVED IN THE ANTI-CND PROPAGANDA EFFORTS. BLATHERWICK, DAVID ELLIOT SPIBY OBE (1973) B 13.7.41 MI6 (C) 1964 MECAS 1966 3RD LATER 2ND SEC FO 1968 KUWAIT 1970 DUBLIN 1973 1ST SEC […]
[…] him a Polaroid photograph taken of the dead Green. This is awkward for the British state – and Taylor. Acknowledging this would be to give too much propaganda advantage to the IRA. So this is Taylor on Nairac: ‘There were rumours and allegations that Captain Robert Nairac, a legendary army intelligence and liaison officer […]
[…] Deacon also defends old friends – the Goldsmith/ Spiegel case, the nuclear power lobby, SDI etc – and reveals recent thinking on the spook-connected British right: ‘Russian propaganda has found its way into British schools….Christianity has in recent years been distorted into a “front organisation” for international communism . ……Friends of the Earth draws […]
