Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] chance whatsoever of Churchill being forgotten. Johnson did not write this book in order to safeguard Churchill’s memory or reputation. He wrote it as a work of propaganda to advance his own political career by wrapping himself in the Churchill mythology, putting himself forward as the man’s contemporary incarnation. He wants to be seen […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] Graham, on the other hand, was the brother of former OSS man and later Washington Post editor the late Phil Graham, who helped the CIA by running propaganda as part of Operation Mockingbird and by covering up the Agency’s failure at the Bay of Pigs, whose personal acquaintances included CIA Director Allen Dulles. (Phil […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] same page without needing to state it? Or is it simply that none of this got put down on paper? The most frequently used techniques were bribery, propaganda and manipulation. Phoney political movements and parties were created. This continued into the 1980s when the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – allegedly, says the author – […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] being in some way different from the nuclear weapons of capitalist states.60 Delusions about the nature of Soviet society were maintained and criticism of it deflected as propaganda created by a malevolent capitalist west. But today’s Russia has little to do with the former Soviet Union. Yes, there is a complex back story to […]