Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the still-classified archives of the government. But I seriously doubt it. I can tell you for a fact that our democracy is suffocating under an avalanche of disinformation. Trump won the 2020 election! Covid vaccines are seeded with microchips! Democrats are blood-sucking pedophile communists! 9/11 was an inside job! Our body politic is being […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Challenges 3. China 4. Indo-Pacific Realignment 5. Sino-US Tech Competition 6. Russia 7. Continuity of Government and the Economy 8. Disruption of the Global Financial System 9. Disinformation 10. Energy Security and Sustainability 11. Post Pandemic Health 12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies 13. Trade and Deglobalisation 14. Ukraine Which might keep them busy for […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Polish intelligence. The author’s evidence? Documents that he was shown, and allowed to copy, but not allowed to keep. In other words, the usual procedure for disseminating disinformation via credulous intermediaries. This will be a recurrent motif in the present work. 2 Rothberg died in 1992, well before Mr Speriglio released the memo that […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[PDF file]: […] of the paranoid right’s conspiracy fantasies, the Labour Cabinet was regarded with suspicion and many of its members, notably Wilson himself, were subjected to surveillance, burglaries and disinformation in this period. The anti-communist hysteria encompassed the formation of private militias – the so-called private armies – by former intelligence and military personnel, media speculation […]