[…] two interesting developments there: One is the presence of Maurice Tugwell. Tugwell now heads his own organisation, the McKenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda. This arrived in 1986 “to provide Canadians with a source of information” on psychological warfare. (Something the Canadians clearly need…….) The ‘Institute’ publishes papers, holds conferences […]
[…] to Nottingham, and in 1976 he took up a defence fellowship at King’s College, London, where he wrote a thesis on ‘The Problems of Dealing with Revolutionary Propaganda’. Tugwell’s job as Colonel General Staff (Information Policy) was, as described by terrorism ‘expert’ Richard Clutterbuck, ‘not merely to react to the media -or events – […]
[…] otherwise is lying to you. Spelt out like this, this is a bizarre world view, but it’s surprisingly common. Its best-known exemplar is probably Noam Chomsky’s ‘ propaganda model’ of the media, which has the dubious merit of supplementing its critique of individual journalists with such a range of economic, political, institutional and cultural […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] cited the visit to Fiji by Ambassador Vernon Walters, U.S. pressure on New Zealand over ship visit bans, and what they termed “the recent barrage of U.S. propaganda on growing Libyan interest in the South Pacific.” Other newspapers from across the political spectrum which carried or repeated similar articles on the Fiji coup included […]
[…] was in fact forged by Leonard (now Sir Leonard) Usher, former mayor of Suva and editor of the Fiji Times, widely involved in production of Alliance Party propaganda. A Royal Commission of Inquiry was set up after the election to investigate Mara’s claim. It also looked at more substantive complaints from the opposition. Mara […]
[…] this? Because Harris told them. Harris has a wonderful tale of Bollier’s role in Radio North Sea, a ‘pirate’ radio station which in 1970 was running anti-Labour propaganda. ‘It came on the air on January 23 1970. Its conventional medium wave transmitter was more powerful than any other pirate radio ship, and most European […]
[…] overcome their dislike of the further right and work together in the Anglo-Rhodesian Society (ARS). The ARS was the rebel Rhodesian government’s second attempt to create a propaganda body in Britain. The first attempt had been the Friends of Rhodesia, created by the Rhodesian High Commissioner in London in 1964, before the Declaration of […]
[…] weak, demoralised and out of control – MI5 was clearly not regarded as much better. All this was positioned in the context of a history of simplistic propaganda that London had become a haven for Islamic extremists – the trite nonsense exemplified by Melanie Phillips’ too easy adoption of the French propaganda term ‘Londonistan’. […]
[…] can’t bring herself to state that they were fascist outrages.) Given the patience these absurd examples could be multiplied 10, 20-fold. This book is mostly junk, mere propaganda. I had it with me to read on the train when I visited Colin Wallace. I showed him the list of contributors and mentioned the Jonathan […]
