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...
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...
Threats to Freedom of Expression: Covid-19, the ‘fact checking counter-disinformation industry’, and online harm...
(Also published by PANDA and at PANDA substack)
We are living through an era in which freedom of expression is evaporating. Numerous scientists have been...
Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies
(Also published by Brownstone Institute and PANDA.)
Prologue: The art of Really Big Lies
In a former role I had a boss who lied a lot....
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...
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...
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...
Between Administration and Society: Camus, Plagues, and Coronavirus
Abstract: This article examines the relevance of Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague, for understanding the rationales and actions taken by state actors in the CoVid-19 crisis. Because...
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...