Leaked emails: ‘Independent’ SAGE crushed dissent over COVID restrictions
On November 21st 2022, The Grayzone exposed how the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (iSAGE), which relentlessly sought to influence public perceptions and...
The Covid-19 Concoction: A Recipe for Successful Psychological Operations
Abstract: When viewed as a war story, the COVID-19 narrative framed in corporate media urges citizens to be on a constant “war footing” and...
Deafening Silences: propaganda through censorship, smearing and coercion
(Also published at pandata.org.)Since the start of the COVID event, authorities around the world have sought to implement quite extraordinary policies including the so-called...
‘Never Let a Good Crisis go to Waste’: Understanding Propaganda and COVID
It’s been two years since COVID-19 became a dominant and all-consuming issue . Now there are signs we are witnessing the unravelling of some...
The Serpent and the Staff: Symbols of Safety and Security in the Propaganda of...
Introduction
Understanding the bizarre social and economic transformations afoot in the world today requires a considerably wider view of history than is presented in contemporary...
Engineering Compliance: From Climate to Covid and Back Again
Introduction
From early in the pandemic, commentators were quick to make connections between Covid-19 and climate change. In March 2020, for example, Scientific American explained...
Philanthrocapitalism and Corporatocracy: The Great Global Coup d’état
Introduction
Last September 14th, a corporate news outlet, Politico.com, published an article regarding the extent of the control that two private foundations — the Wellcome Trust and...
Minimization of Harm
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has...
Cockup or Conspiracy: Understanding COVID-19 as a ‘Structural Deep Event’
(Updated July 2023 based upon article originally published by PANDA in March 2022)
It has been three years since COVID-19 emerged as a dominant and,...
Face Masks – Medical Protection or Badge of Obedience?
I don’t normally watch TVNZ’s Seven Sharp, but on 5th October 2021, we were told that an immunologist would be on the programme to...