Misinformation or Public Debate?
Introduction
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of concern about online misinformation and disinformation, with efforts to thwart it. In many cases, claims...
Symposium: Prospects for Rights in the COVID-19 Times
Editors’ Note: There is no shortage of scholars who have come out publicly to say that the story of COVID-19 is a story about...
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...
What we don’t know is killing us: The urgency of propaganda study under COVID
For those of us who study propaganda critically, and seek to do this all-important work as public intellectuals, these last two years have been...
The Regressed Nest
Editors’ Note: This article, edited by Colin Alexander, is based on a chapter written by Rachael Alexander and published in Colin Alexander's latest book, Fear...
Covid Nudging Through Subliminal Messaging
Tragically, the vast majority of New Zealanders received the Pfizer ‘vaccinations’ during the covid era - even though some were NOT mandated by law...
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...
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...
Part 2: Whither Europe? The EU is Poised for a Transformation towards Centralised Control...
Not too long ago, European integration promised peace, prosperity, and the sustained betterment of the human condition. As of spring 2025, the Brussels-led bloc...
‘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...