[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme opinions and were leaking black propaganda about their own government to the press? But despite the uncertainties still left in the wake of Hunt’s admission (what the American call a ‘limited hang-out’), […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the mark to earn him the cigar). He also knew enough to be sure in himself that letting actual or potential Soviet agents into a government anti-Soviet propaganda outfit (as he saw it) would be to allow enemy agents to reconnoitre and possibly subvert UK defences. The month’s gap between the first list (of […]
[…] nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university…….’ (1) Abroad, conscious of its poor image, HMG beefs up its propaganda machine. So it is announced that the Medialink Consultancy has been appointed to run the London Radio Service, an international English Language news service. ‘The Foreign […]
