Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] the press might collude in keeping its existence (rather than its personnel) secret. This network has been operating since 2002 and has motive and means for anti-Islamist propaganda operations and for the laundering of Guantanamo and Arab states’ security and intelligence information. It is allegedly a Franco-US funded operation. Given what we know about […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] urging them to vote for Tony Blair. In the run-up to the 1997 general election, Blair’s win in this popular media event would have been a valuable propaganda coup, making this something of a ‘double whammy’ in the world of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] the case of ‘public diplomacy’, while public does mean open, diplomacy doesn’t mean diplomacy. ‘Public diplomacy’ is a recent term for a range of activities hitherto called propaganda, public relations, advertising and psy-ops. So while this book could have been been about the CIA, IRD, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its little […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] be presented with the drama of a showdown between democracy and totalitarianism which used the categories of individualism and collectivism in a slightly different way. The cultural propaganda developed for use in Western Europe took a shape not so different from that of Cold War Christianity, although the details were strikingly different. The early […]