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...
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...
NATO Member States Implement Classified “Resilience Objectives”
Governments of NATO member states implement classified 'NATO Resilience Objectives'. Dutch Minister of Public Health Fleur Agema accidently spilled the beans. She tried to...
Military Operations in Civilian Disguise, Part 3: Bio-Nano Governance and Terms of Use for...
Abstract: Since government must be involved in the accumulation of capital to legitimate its activities, and since humans are, in the eyes of government,...
Public Money, Private Crusades: The ‘ScienceUpFirst‘ Campaign and the New Politics of Misinformation
The Face of “Science Communication” in Canada
In recent years, a new genre of science communication has taken center stage in Canada. It doesn’t look...
From Insulin to mRNA Therapy: 100 Years of Progress and Regress in Medical Science
The 2021-22 period marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto. In October 2021, the University of Toronto...
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,...
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...
You are Not a Horse: Misinformation, Medicalization, and the Suppression of Dissent in the...
A Tweet Read Around the World
On August 21, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a now infamous (and retracted) tweet: “You...
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...