Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] £7.99 This is well written, detailed and documented. The authors describe how American business funds the American right and how that right operates: its think-tanks, its propaganda outfits, its hired hack journalists, its PR firms; and how it commissions and disseminates phoney research, runs smear campaigns and psy-ops, gerrymanders electoral districts, and steals […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] Independent 1994-96 at the time Mandelson was an advisor. Jim Heartfield describes Geoff Mulgan and Jacques’ relationship as that ‘between the old Central Committee Chair and his propaganda officer’. Geoff MulganInitially worked at the Greater London Council, he was a 1986-87 Harkness Fellow (which reinforces Anglo-American links) at MIT, and has led Demos since […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] a useful overview of the subject and its problems – of which the chief one is the fact that many of the so-called think tanks are essentially propaganda operations – we get accounts of the Adam Smith Institute, the Social Market Foundation and the Institute for Economic Affairs. There is much interesting detail here […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] 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’. […]