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 […]

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 […]

Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] 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 […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] 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 […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] the Allies against Germany.(10) Umaru Bah examines his theories of development communication research and its involvement in ‘promoting US foreign policy objectives in general, and Cold War propaganda objectives in particular.’(11) Another academic, psychologist Carl Rogers,also had links to the CIA-funded Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.(12) Demanchick and Kirschenbaum provide the details […]

007: a new theory

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] that a Soviet plane had fired at something, and they knew a Korean airliner had crashed. Even if they thought the Schultz story was wrong, once the propaganda had started to flow (“This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere” – R. Reagan) […]

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