Conspiracy theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] JFK: namely that those criticising Warren’s conclusion should be described as ‘conspiracy theorists’. The author notes that this turned out to be ‘one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time’; the ‘conspiracytheory label has become a powerful smear that, in the name of reason, civility, and democracy, pre-empts public discourse, reinforces rather […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] proceedings in the first place. The problem all along was that Tony Blair’s unelected PR manager was 50 involved in the creation of what was effectively military propaganda, while the Cabinet was kept in the dark. And what Sir John said about the WMD scare-story was that such claims ‘were presented with a certainty […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the use of fluoride. Compassionate Conservatism The always interesting William Clark has an analysis of socalled ‘progressive Conservatism’ on his site.5 1 ‘ Progressive Conservatism, as a propaganda project, has two strands: the first is to capture the language of other parties to make the party seem progressive (this functions almost solely through repetition); […]

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[…] in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] operations: for example, Operation Chaos against the domestic radical media; and, in the final section, ‘Coda: Afghanistan’, he shows how former CCF personnel were involved in the propaganda around the American support for the mujahideen in 4 The evidence, transcripts of recordings of JFK and brother Bobby discussing this, is at . Afghanistan. It […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] down the search results we find a copy of his newsletter from 1974 released by the CIA.7 This is a rather impressive if bizarre piece of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as […]

The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with apartheid South Africa or countering the apartheid analogy with evidence of the genuine differences between the two systems, Israel’s defenders have resorted to vitriol and recycled propaganda.’ The author finds the apartheid comparison an imperfect one: ‘Unlike white South Africa and many other colonial regimes, Zionists never banned miscegenation or kept people they […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] war – one strongly supported by Murdoch and other supporters of the policies of the United States and Israel – on the basis of ‘dodgy dossiers’ and propaganda in whose creation Campbell had played a major part. Is this a man whose warnings about polarisation, populism and post-truth politics can be taken remotely seriously? […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

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[PDF file]: […] race – just like the USSR was during the first cold war. The encouragement of regional separatist tendencies within the People’s Republic, and the launch of a propaganda offensive against it via mainstream and liberal media outlets throughout the West, also recalls the strategy of ‘containment’ deployed against the USSR from 1947 until it […]

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