Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay On the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of […]

The World That Never Was by Alex Butterworth

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 20Å10. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander As the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into a highly readable and entertaining (and occasionally […]

[PDF file]: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 20Å10. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander As the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into a highly readable and entertaining (and occasionally […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 – […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Israel’s Interests’, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2003. 109 Quoted in Roy Greenslade, ‘Their Master’s Voice’, The Guardian, 17 February 2003. 110 ‘Murdoch Confesses to Propaganda On Iraq’, February 3, 2007, . 111 Andrew Grice, ‘How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war’, The Independent, 19 […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]

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