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Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] from the point of view of reporting news, then yes, here, of course, the media will no longer have such relevance.18 Zekomanda saturated social media with electoral propaganda while telling potential voters almost nothing about what Zelensky stood for. This online astroturfing had been cued well in advance. In the first series of Servant […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] general’s communications were accessed in real time in Washington, when he was on a flight in any part of the world, courtesy of the cipher CX-52 machine.2 Propaganda and covert influence operations formed a thick web, 2 Nick Must commented: The CX-52 was an early product of Crypto AG, the Swiss cryptological machine manufacturer […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.20 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.10 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? by Daniel W B Lomas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had to decisively crush opposition from the Left to its pro-American stance. The Conservatives faced no such problem. The government was very much concerned to counter anti-British propaganda, much of it communist-inspired; and to this end established the Information Research Department. This was intended to covertly advocate a ‘Third Force’ approach, portraying Britain as […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] from the point of view of reporting news, then yes, here, of course, the media will no longer have such relevance.18 Zekomanda saturated social media with electoral propaganda while telling potential voters almost nothing about what Zelensky stood for. This online astroturfing had been cued well in advance. In the first series of Servant […]

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[…] in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate ” propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ In short: this speakers’ list makes no sense for people being trained to run a genuine ‘stay behind’ network – […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] well as betrayed by their friends, and misled, even turned against, their own democracies. In their favour, signals intelligence probably shortened the Second World War, and covert propaganda may have helped bring down the Soviet Union (Jeffreys-Jones doesn’t seem certain about this). The record is mixed, but it is far from reassuring. Hence the […]