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[…] end of the book his unwillingness to use such a term struck me as being at least as strange as the territory he is ‘mapping’. Conspiracy Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter 9 in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] from any responsibility for the death of Otto Warmbler, the American student sentenced to fifteen years hard labour in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian and CIA links (the Christian connection was not that convincing […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Orleans. The eponymous Reily was a rabid anti-communist who gave financial support both to Sergio Arcacha Smith’s Crusade to Free Cuba Committee and Ed Butler’s partially CIA-funded propaganda outfit, the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). The Reily vice-president, William Monaghan, was a former FBI agent and was a charter member of INCA. Jim […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] not gunmen at all, but innocent bystanders’. (p. 194) And that is Frank Kitson’s account of the Bloody Sunday massacre! He still complains about how the ‘republican propaganda machine’ succeeded in ‘making most of the Catholic population of Belfast think that I was a wicked fellow’. (p. 189) Colonel Wilford was awarded the OBE […]

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow Gerald Horne New York: Monthly Review Press, 2014 N o later than the Wilsonian propaganda campaign to bring ordinary US citizens and the world to support US intervention in World War I, did the inhabitants — at least the ‘white’ ones […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] what good work he had done.52 Compassionate Conservatism The always interesting William Clark has an analysis of so-called ‘progressive Conservatism’ on his site.53 ‘Progressive Conservatism, as a propaganda project, has two strands: the first is to capture the language of other parties to make the party seem progressive (this functions almost solely through repetition); […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] He said that it wasn’t Special Branch that monitored the magazine but the security services, who passed on to the Branch a lot of ‘verifications’; for ‘ propaganda to be honest’. Without naming anyone, he said that a lot of people associated with the magazine were ‘compromised’. He added that McCann wasn’t the only […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] forty odd years without acknowledging the pernicious influence of Rupert Murdoch. His particular brand of journalism has also infected American politics. Think of Lying Donald’s own personal propaganda news station, Fox News, which is provided by Murdoch. Unfortunately, there is no discussion of Murdoch and his influence in the USA in Hersh’s book. Surely […]

Newsinger on KItson

Lobster Issue

[…] not gunmen at all, but innocent bystanders’. (p. 194) And that is Frank Kitson’s account of the Bloody Sunday massacre! He still complains about how the ‘republican propaganda machine’ succeeded in ‘making most of the Catholic population of Belfast think that I was a wicked fellow’. (p. 189) Colonel Wilford was awarded the OBE […]

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