United States foreign policy

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] on the lives of some 40 foreign political leaders. Crude interference in dozens of foreign democratic elections. Gross manipulation of labour movements. Shameless manufacture of ‘news’, the disinformation effect of which is multiplied when CIA assets in other countries pick up the same stories. Providing handbooks, materials and encouragement for the practice of torture. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] sales by offending this group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when ConsortiumNews reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.22 Since when other commercial organisations have […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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