Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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)
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[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)
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[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 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] done……. Beyond hypocrisy There’s a 1992 book by Edward Herman, Beyond Hypocrisy.37 I haven’t read this and, though it’s subtitled ‘Decoding the news in an age of propaganda’, the title is an apt shorthand description of American foreign policy. Thus the state which is apparently agitated about the use of ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council?58 or 55 or 56 Check the material on this Twitter stream from Piers Robinson from the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media at . 57 With everybody and their cousin trying to disinform us, this is about as ‘sticky’ an area as exists at the moment. […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] developed into colonies between the 17th and 20th centuries. The deep imperial interests, complex trade associations, and huge profits (potential or actual) meant that ‘postcolonialism’ – a propaganda word for reconstituted colonialism – was never going run smoothly, particularly in the face of rising Soviet influence in Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, and elsewhere in the […]