[…] why or how the OTO ended up with a branch in California, though we could note that Crowley was in the US in 1915-1917 working for German propaganda, under George Viereck, (4) and may have left some adherents behind when he quit the country. In any event by 1941 Parsons had become its leader, […]
Flat Earth News: An award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media Nick Davies London: Chatto & Windus, 2008, £17.99, For many taking a dissenting view of our national life, The Guardian and The Observer have long been part of our diet – the morning fix that sustains us in our […]
[…] later be used against the labour movement of Britain, was a well worn theme of left discourse in the 1970s, both in dramatic fiction and in left propaganda. One sees it in the canon of John Gould’s dramas for the BBC, during this period, such as The Donati Conspiracy and State of Emergency, and […]
[…] Israel by one of its own citizens. ‘The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for growing the anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Sharon’s propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large communities with this mark, Many good people, […]
[…] of Herman’s previous books on the media and disinformation, the excellent Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection and The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda. The opening section of the book takes the statistical approach adopted in The Real Terror Network, to prove that state terrorism, particularly in Latin America, has […]
[…] who are seeking the nation’s highest office.’ Factbook on Intelligence http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/facttell/index.html Updated version of the CIA Factbook on Intelligence, a history and guide to the CIA. German Propaganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ Nazi and East German propaganda, translated. ‘Includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people […]
Weapons of Mass Deception: The uses of propaganda in Bush’s war on Iraq Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber London: Robinson, 2003, p/b, £6.99 Regime Unchanged: Why the war on Iraq changed nothing Milan Rai London: Pluto, 2003, p/b, £10.99 The Rampton/Stauber book appeared about 6 weeks after the attack on Iraq ended and […]
[…] of the well known stories planted in the media by Information Policy, the Army psy-ops unit in Northern Ireland in which Wallace worked, we are told: ‘The propaganda war continued with a new committee chaired by Michael Cudlipp and staffed by representatives of the North Ireland Office, the RUC and the army; including Jeremy […]
[…] (G 17.2.69) 1970 FCO CHILD, CLIFTON JAMES OBE (1949) B 20.6.12 1940 ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS 1941 FO POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT. COVER FOR PWE. PART OF DELMER’S ‘BLACK’ PROPAGANDA TEAM. IN CHARGE INTELLIGENCE SECTION 1946 HEAD OF AMERICAN SECTION RESEARCH DEPT 1958 AFRICAN SECTION 1962 DEPUTY LIBRARIAN AND KEEPER OF THE PAPERS FO 1967 CABINET […]
[…] time criticising but little encouraging progress. (p. 1) Even at this early stage, before the dispute was formalised, clear political differences were revealed, on the nature of propaganda, the use of revolutionary rhetoric, the likelihood of state repression and so on. Meanwhile, debates which had continued beneath the surface about the NF’s future strategy […]
