The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Opus, made for the Expo 67 World Exhibition. A magnificent celebration of architecture, dance, art, drama and music, and very much the image of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD) is discussed in passing. […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] died at the hands of American military power while the left has been speaking truth to it. The central fact remains: the party of Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Barbara Castle and Jack Jones, largely funded by the trade unions, chose as leader someone who, as well as being Mrs Thatcher in all but name, […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] Dr Theo Kindynis,3 there are signs of life in British academic political studies. *new* Google AI and our secret history I have been reformatting Lobster 11, ‘ Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’, and have thus read it for the first time in years. It describes the network of right-wing groups, paramilitary groups, […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] US foreign policy and the baleful influence it has exerted in the past century. Such an account would start with the pursuit of economic liberalism by Woodrow Wilson; his decision (while campaigning amongst various ethnic blocs resident in the US during the mid-term elections in 1918) to support the dismantling of Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 30 Nechiporenko (see note 27) p. 247. 31 Angleton’s reputation has come under relentless attack, most recently at a 29 March 2012 conference sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Georgetown University Center for Security Studies entitled Moles, Defectors and Deceptions: James Angleton and His Influence on US Counterintelligence. At the conference, which […]

Pisces Moon Valentine review text

Lobster Issue

[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] below: Do spies matter? Angleton certainly did to this country, though perhaps not in his official CIA role. He fuelled the Labour-is-run-by-theSoviets theme which led to the Wilson plots, the creation of Civil Contingencies Cadre in the late 1970s and, ultimately, to Mrs Thatcher and the disastrous adoption of the free market nonsense in […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] and the public relations industry learned to exploit. The journalist George Creel called his memoir of the Committee on Public Information he chaired – formed by Woodrow Wilson to sell US entry into World War I – How We Advertised America. The campaign was successful in gaining mass support for a policy designed to […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]

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