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 […]

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, […]

‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] operations since the establishment of the Soviet Union, or that international front groups controlled by the Russian Communist Party have not systematically engaged in worldwide penetration and propaganda campaigns. It is nonetheless true that scholars have often hastened to deny the existence of genuine conspiratorial plots, without making any effort whatsoever to investigate them, […]

Secret State, Silent Press: new militarism, the Gulf and the modern image of warfare

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] White House were ‘tested’ in the morning when no cameras were allowed and the fine-tuned for later briefings which would find their way onto evening news bulletins.The propaganda lessons of Vietnam had been fully absorbed and the media were used (in the vast majority of cases quite willingly) to report and promote exactly what […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] global media ecology….in the battle for hearts and minds…the impact of such operations at home may be their most important legacy. IO “blowback” occurs as surveillance and propaganda campaigns targeting foreign audiences spill back into the US because of the nature of the global media and information flows.’(21) The miners united… A former Bedfordshire […]

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] 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 […]

The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] the Twin Towers were feeble and incompetent. If it was a fake, could they not have manufactured more plausible Iraqi links? Why give al-Qaeda such a massive propaganda victory? And even if blaming al-Qaeda made any kind of sense, why do something so massive and so economically destructive? The same propaganda effect, the same […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] 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 […]

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