Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] 2006); lock-in: Saudi Arabia will wait for Gordon Brown to become Prime Minister before signing the deal; name generation – always an important arm of political PR/ propaganda: Saudi Arabia’s missiles are called ‘Al Salaam’ – as obscene as America’s ‘Patriots’. The Guardian 16 and 17 January 2007 A ‘tip-off’ can also be of […]

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] the position of Mr. Moussadek’ and that the ‘ideal man to do it would be Dr. Zaehner’, an Oxford lecturer who had been ‘extremely successful in covert propaganda in 1944’ in Iran.(31) Zaehner was swiftly dispatched to Iran by the Labour government to aid the fall of Musaddiq, for which he was provided with […]

Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] action sure to short-circuit the Official IRA’s plan (of a take-over on the Cuban model) was Dublin intervention in Northern Ireland. When this seemed likely, a major propaganda campaign was mounted (by the OIRA), directed primarily against Blaney, Haughey and Boland, the three ministers who, in varying degrees, were seen as supporting some kind […]

Gaian Democracies: Redefining globalisation and people-power

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] of a purposeful human system we have called the “Global Monetocracy” …… The elites of the Global Monetocracy use the power of property, personality, tradition, technology, myth, propaganda, the media, government, professional and technical expertise, the judiciary, and the police, patronage and, crucially, the power of ideology.’ (pp. 11 and 12) Which is what […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] copy is available on request from Olivier Schmidt in Paris on tel/ fax 33 1 40.51.85.19. Exposed! The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda Watch – the Right Pamphlet Number One This is an anonymous, 40 page, A5 pamphlet which analyses the Mackenzie personnel, their affiliations and some of its […]

The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] the list of some 70 prominent figures who contributed statements advocating Anglo-American ‘reunion’ to the June 1898 issue of Stead’s Review of Reviews, an issue devoted to propaganda for “an informal Association of Friendly Fellowship” for promoting common action throughout the English-speaking world. On the list are many figures who were members of the […]

Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] 3 Harry Irwin NOW! Gregory Voysey writes: In Lobster 17 (pp14-16) you note that Now!, a magazine owned by Sir James Goldsmith, was used to further the propaganda aims of the Pinay Circle. Now! was also involved in a scheme to discredit President Carter during the 1980 presidential campaign. This involved luring his brother, […]

Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] is easily dismissed in the NED’s closed world. The ‘report’ is a seemingly interminable expression of faux surprise at other regimes’ xenophobic resentment towards foreign spies, black propaganda, heavily funded ‘protest groups’ and media, consultants and agent provocateurs fomenting civil unrest with the overthrow of the state as their aim. The Lugar Report’s sources […]

Outlaws of America: The Weather Undergound and the Politics of Solidarity

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] American state and media. Here is one of the oddities of the group: they went from demos to bombs, almost missing out on the reading, writing and propaganda stage of the ‘normal’ left group’s development. Their major publications appeared while some of them they were on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list. Outlaws indeed. This […]

The Case Against Israel, and, The Power of Israel

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] the parameters to US foreign aid in the Middle East. The overseas networks play a major role in shaping the internal debate on US policy toward Israel. Propaganda associating Israeli repression of Palestinians as the righteous response of the victims of the Holocaust has been repeated throughout the mass media. President Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that […]

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