Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Dr John Beresford, with whom he formed the Institute for British-American Cultural Exchange, about which almost nothing is known.2 Shinkfield himself described it as ‘a semi-official British propaganda agency in the field of international cultural relations’. As to what it did: over the next few years Beresford and Shinkfield cultivated the widest possible social […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] on my computer. It was obviously written around 2004 and, as far as I can see, was never used. M ichael Moore’s film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ which supported the US invasion of Iraq, […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the impression that Trotsky was the focus of all opposition to Stalin. The sympathy shown for the infamous ‘show trials’ coincides with the author’s view that their propaganda target was not domestic but foreign: namely that Stalin would not tolerate Western subversion, even if it meant sacrificing loyal communist dissidents to make the point. […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] popular consciousness and ‘incorporated into the political culture, shared especially by the upper circles of politicians, business elites, the military, and Christian institutions…..one of the most impressive propaganda achievements ever.’ This was facilitated by the fraudulent use and abuse of many treaties and numerous laws such as the Indian Removal Law and the Discovery […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] the two accounts offer an interesting set of claims about the role of intelligence in the politics of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.15 FIMI YouTube is now littered with AI political propaganda. The material I have seen, mostly talking heads, is anti-Trump. And much of it is good, too. Indeed, the AI talking heads are more interesting – […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] a Polish historian’s conclusion in 2013. 13 ‘The assassination theory was made up by Germany to drive a wedge between the Poles and their Western Allies. Goebbels’s propaganda claimed that the Soviets killed Sikorski with the approval of the British, because he dared to denounce the Katyn massacre and turned to the Red Cross […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] page just does not convey it. But of course quite a bit of Nixon’s activities were supposedly secret. Surely a cuntocracy is dependent on a vast hidden propaganda apparatus? But such techniques of control are merely the basic methods by which an individual or a group asserts its cuntocratic orientation — its power and […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] aware of his borough’s historic status, and he would no doubt have learned all about its glorious past during his formal education. Living alongside this flourishing pro-Soviet propaganda installation, and occasionally venturing inside it, can only have exercised a strong influence on Olaf’s developing mind. One might describe it as immersive indoctrination, and it […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] being treated as disposable ‘cannon fodder’ is always endemic in the lower orders of any army. What Mr Wallace had actually done was dust off an old propaganda story and sharpen it up for use in the new information war against Russia. The mobile crematorium had first trundled into public awareness in 2015, after […]

The CIA and Radio Nord Simon

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] covering both Enerström and Petré he noted how ‘Enerström has been called the biggest Palme hater in Sweden’ and that ‘together they traveled throughout the country spreading propaganda against Palme’. Enerström was probably borderline mentally ill and, when his son was taken into care in 1976, Enerström believed that Olof Palme was personally responsible. […]

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