[…] journalism avoid that? () He is in a world of his own here, seeing demons and angels. () Real analysis has shown up the neo-con’s need for disinformation. Clinging to their paradigm, Lloyd can only disinform his readers. What has happened in Iraq reveals journalists like him, and those he uncritically defends, as part […]
[…] the British secret state, tracing the career of one Tim Hepple in and out various groups on the British right and left, and analysing various recent Searchight disinformation campaigns. This has been written and produced very quickly and the result is an extremely complex narrative which is clumsily written and difficult to follow in […]
[…] there. Hey Joe In September the US State Department put out a briefing, ‘How to Identify Misinformation’. Before 1990 such a document would have been about Soviet disinformation campaigns; and this one begins with some well known examples of Soviet disinformation before proceeding to attack conspiracy theories. It names only three current sources of […]
[…] you check the source given it doesn’t actually substantiate the claim made by ‘Torbitt’ for which it is offered as evidence. I’m reasonably certain that ‘Torbitt’ is disinformation, probably produced by the CIA in the wake of the Garrison inquiry. It may even have been a response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, […]
9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan London: Robinson, 2005; £8.99, p/b A declaration of a kind of interest: one of the authors of this book, Ian Henshall, is the Chair of INK, the Independent News Collective, to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has […]
[…] 117). Others allegedly admitted, despite being on the State Department watch list, were Mohamed Atta and possibly Ayman al-Zawahiri (Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism , 205, 46). Wright, The Looming Tower, 177. Lance, 1000 Years, 34. Lance, 1000 Years, 31; Peter Lance, Cover Up: What […]
[…] not only about the information being provided to us but how it is presented psychological and political manipulation is not only about Goebbels and Soviet era disinformation. We need to go back and look at the ‘silences, lacunae and absences’. Manipulation is about the somewhat school-boyish but influential techniques of the vaguely psychopathic […]
[…] of that system. In their view of this country’s recent history there were no Wilson plots; Northern Ireland is ignored; Cathy Massiter was guilty of ‘moralising misrepresentations’; disinformation, I-ops and bureaucratic rivalries are ignored. Intelligence and security organisations are no more or less likely to break the law than any other public bodies, they […]
[…] be true; some of it, anyway.(6) Most of the stuff I’ve seen is from the right with axes to grind and large appetites for recycling anti-Democratic Party disinformation. (They’ve got Watergate-Nixon-the CIA horrors-Iran-contra and the October Surprise to make up for.) Though there does appear to be evidence for much of this, when someone […]
[…] from the woman they both loved. But Ellsberg vehemently denied that either Scotton or Conein had intervened on his behalf. Their stories, he said, were standard CIA disinformation, in this case designed to make him seem beholden to former CIA comrades, and thus cast doubt on his motives for leaking The Pentagon Papers. Be […]
