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121. Demos [Lobster #45 (Summer 2003)]
... New Labour's Renewal, which was housed in publicist Tim Bell's offices. Editor Neal Lawson worked for Lowe Bell before starting lobbying company LLM.(2) Jacques was deputy editor of The 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 Mulgan Initially 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 1993. Mulgan's CV doesn't mention that he joined the British American Project (BAP) in 1996. In the 1980s Mulgan was in Comedia which (with Roger ...
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... the 'loony left' of the Labour Party which the central office and its supportive media were working hard to manufacture in the 1980s. The young anarcho-capitalists who took over the Fellowship of Conservative Students detested socialism and communism and shared the Reagan administration's view of the Soviet Union as 'the evil empire'. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be getting support from Washington: Renamo and the Contras come to mind. About Mozambique or Nicaragua, they knew the best part of fuck-all; but they didn't need to: if ...
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... Joe Murphy stated that former MI6 officer John Scarlett, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 'masterminded the first dossier on Saddam's arms last September'. Whether or not these 'dossiers' were run past the JIC is one of the interesting unanswered questions. 8 Gaby Hinsliff, Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy, 'First casualties in the propaganda firefight', The Observer, 9 February 2003. 9 'It was the refusal of Britain's spies to disclose what they knew about their Iraqi counterparts that led to the fiasco surrounding the latest British dossier.' Michael Smith, 'Secret service stand on sources led to blunder', Daily Telegraph, 8 February,< http:// ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media Andy Mullen See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain's first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union (EU), rather than Common Market, European Economic Community (EEC), or European Community (EC), will be used throughout this article to refer to the post-war ...
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125. Feedback [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... know that we were being lied to. Herman objects to my characterisation of his and Noam Chomsky's 'propaganda model' as an exemplar of 'white crow' thinking. He writes: the notion that Chomsky says that "what you believe is the truth and anyone saying otherwise is lying to you", is imbecile nonsense. The idea that the propaganda model repres-ents a "critique of individual journalists", is complete horseshit. That it divides the world into truth-tellers and liars, and that it focuses on lies is also unmitigated nonsense. On the first point, anyone applying the propaganda model will, over time, classify some sources as relatively trustworthy and others as generally mendacious. This ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-42.htm
... , hiding his wife's own cigarettes, and publicising health insurance. The word 'cynicism' seems awfully inadequate. From there, it was only a short step to helping reelect President Calvin Coolidge. Before long, Bernays was helping Israel to lobby the US military and recasting India as a worthy recipient of $1bn-worth of aid. He became the propaganda mastermind in overthrowing Guatemala's elected government on behalf of the United Fruit Company (who were worried that the country's socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, Bernays did later turn down an attempt to hire him made by presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, showing that the bottom of even the deepest barrel can be scraped eventually. But by ...
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127. The View [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... its cars and its air-conditioning units running. Even though everyone- everyone bar Tony Blair, it seems- knows it's about oil, throughout the summer and autumn the media was saturated with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and its weapons potential. Some of these might have been true but there is so much disinformation and propaganda being generated by the US and UK intelligence services there is no way of telling with most of it. Three spectacular examples of fakery are worth noting.On 27 September, in 'Agency Disavows Report on Iraq Arms', the Washington Times pointed out: 'The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report [of theirs] cited by President Bush ...
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... #53 (Summer 2007) Issue #54 (Winter 2007/8) Issue #55 (Summer 2008) Issue #56 (Winter 2008/9) Issue #57 (Summer 2009) Clandestine Caucus (1996) About Lobster Subscribe See also...© 2002 Lobster Contents| Cover Image Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media Mob Rule. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000 (Book review) Spook PR New Labour Notes Historical Notes A note on Arthur Andersen and Co. The View from the Bridge Sudan and slavery: disinformation and the Telegraph group Updates Sources How many divisions ...
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... companies. It also documents the intertwining of the exile Cuban financial interests, including Mafioso and former dictator Batista's henchmen with right – wing US politicians, in particular in Florida, home to many Cuban exiles. Throughout the period following Castro's seizure of power, there has been a bloody war being fought clandestinely and more openly in the form of propaganda pumped from the USA seeking to undermine the government of Cuba. Bacardi have been at the forefront of these attempts, being linked to convicted terrorists and mainstream think tanks and educational foundations- all the while trying to regain 'their' property that was nationalised by the Cuban Government in the post-revolutionary period. One of the more interesting aspects was ...
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... , based on the highly sophisticated 'double fold' test: if you fold a page, origami-style, back on itself a sufficient number of times it will break or tear. According to this test, millions of volumes were at risk of turning into dust; but if the dust didn't get them they might spontaneously combust, claimed the 1987 propaganda film Slow Fires. By repeatedly presenting such untruths library administrators attracted millions of dollars of public money which was used to dispose of the very material whose care was their responsibility. One of the many intriguing features of this black farce is the extent to which important figures in its development had links with the CIA and the military. University ...
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