[…] had been included in the list or had criticised the events of Maidan. The UN OHCHR also noted an increase in the online attacks of “trolls” and disinformation campaigns in social media against activists and media professionals involved in investigative journalism and transparency issues. Physical and online attacks are not investigated, or investigations are […]
[PDF file]: […] of appeals, argument or facts, even from people like Kwame Nkrumah or Ho Chi Minh, who had lived in the US and admired it, could overcome the disinformation used by the US government and US corporations to depict any 14 Philip Agee pointed out that in Latin America the CIA station were passing money […]
[…] Neave. Taken literally, this statement by the author is nonsense: the Soviets and unions did not supply gunmen. Bloom is clumsily compressing a great of deal of disinformation material about Soviet activity in Ireland and the UK: essentially the beliefs that the Soviets were subverting Britain through the CPGB’s role in trade unions and […]
[PDF file]: […] programmes. But most important is the technological factor – the Net, without which none of this would have happened; specifically social media, what has been called ‘” disinformation capitalism” . . . the contentagnostic monetisation techniques that help platforms retain user attention and accumulate their data’. (p. 23) But at this point we really […]
[PDF file]: […] murky history of the deployment of lookalikes for political purposes has always fascinated me, and is an area that I explored a little in ‘LBJ: Doubles and Disinformation’ in Lobster 67. The first week of December saw a startling chance pair of photographs taken by the same snapper, showing two ‘Barack Obamas’ travelling in […]
[PDF file]: […] – for wholly understandable reasons of his own – attempted to obscure his own Stasi career. He has achieved this by erecting a wall of lies and disinformation around his past, and by adopting a pseudonym: ‘Timmi Allen’. Part I: Tracking down ‘Timmi’ The key to identifying Neitsch was provided by a video called […]
[PDF file]: […] a member of the NAFF council.25 Dorril and Ramsay noted that on 14 December 1977 Hastings used parliamentary privilege to run in the House of Commons the disinformation attributed to Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were agents of Soviet intelligence.2 6 Frolik was being run by the CIA and Dorril […]
[PDF file]: […] Thus the Rockefeller quotation fits and neither Professor Chossudovsky, nor anyone else apparently, bothered to check if it was genuine. Which, considering the torrent of fakes and disinformation out there, isn’t good enough, is it? And we have been here before. In Lobster 73 I quoted something from Global Research in my column under […]
A review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001
[PDF file]: […] but the magazine does not descend into despair, paranoia or whackiness. This sanity is an important quality, an anchor in an otherwise constantly shifting ocean of hysteria, disinformation and faddish relativistic postmodern exploitation. There is a strong underlying empiricism to Ramsay’s philosophy and methodology, which has served him in good stead through the years. […]
