Justin Trudeau and the Politics of the Possible: The Emergencies Act Inquiry in Canada...
Introduction
On February 14, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act in response to protests across Canada. Based on testimony at a public inquiry in...
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...
Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the...
Abstract
Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and “anti-disinformation” efforts in our timeline scrolls? When one reads news, further, they often find that “experts” are...
Propaganda Trudeau Style
“What do you do with someone with an allergy? What do you do with someone who’s immunocompromised, or someone who for religious reasons…or deep...
Counter-Disinformation Fails: Feedback from a Target
Introduction
As someone who has quite often been publicly accused of purveying disinformation, I have had reason to examine the burgeoning phenomenon of counter disinformation experts who...
How the Sept 11th victims’ families search for answers was met with Stonewalling, Lies and...
Introduction
On November 24, 2007, September 11th widow Lorie Van Auken whose husband Kenneth W. Van Auken had died in the North Tower spoke before an...
Katharine Gun on Julian Assange
In a few days, Home Secretary Priti Patel will announce whether or not Wikileaks Founder, journalist and publisher Julian Assange should be extradited to...
The Conspiracy Label as a Tool of Propaganda, Part I: Origins and Organizations Behind...
Introduction
On the afternoon of March 9th, 2022, the current White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, used the United States government official Twitter account, @PressSec,...
Remembering Lance deHaven-Smith (1951-2022)
Lance deHaven-Smith (nee Smith) was born in Atlanta Georgia on April 11, 1951. He graduated with honors from high school, earning a letter as...
Patterns of Deception and Deviance in the Post-Truth Period
“Let no man deceive you by any means …”
— 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3
1. Introduction
Patterns of deception are everywhere and their deeper meanings patently plain....
