Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...
Attacks on Academic Freedom, the Times of London, and MI6
This article is also published at UK Column.
Once again, The Times newspaper is attacking academics who speak truth to power, with a new hit-piece. What the latest...
Michael Parenti – Rare Public Voice of Reason, Erudition and Humanity – Rest in...
Michael Parenti, the political scientist and Marxist activist with great intellectual range, recently died at the age of 92. The YouTube comments on one...
Propaganda in Academia
Introduction
What does propaganda have to do with academic research and teaching? Citizens can reasonably expect the academic community to generate scholarly understanding and public...
Follow Bitcoin: Media, Academia, Money and Propaganda
Time is money. Money talks. Money does not grow on trees. Save for a rainy day. There is no such thing as a free...
Academia Libera Mentis – where minds dare
(Watch our interview with Paul Frijters, discussing Academia Libera Mentis, on Propaganda In Focus' YouTube Channel.)
The recent Hallet inquiry and the UK school lockdowns...
‘We Are a Nation of Shopkeepers’
Abstract
Professor Cees Hamelink has been a rare critical voice in Dutch and international communication scholarship for the last half a century. His work has...
How Universities Control the Narrative
The Corporate Playbook: Strategies and Impact on Academia
In this article, I expose how and why universities control the narrative, including the practical ways institutional...
Symposium: Silencing the Academics
If COINTELPRO, a government-sponsored program from the 1950s to the 1970s, was meant to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” alternative perspectives on...
Manifesto for Peace Media in the 21st Century
Professors and researchers in the field of communication launch a manifesto calling for the media to serve peace.
In the midst of an upsurge of...