Manifesto for Peace Media in the 21st Century
Professors and researchers in the field of communication launch a manifesto calling for the media to serve peace.
In the midst of an upsurge of...
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...
Questioning The Official Story About Official Stories: A Role for Citizen Investigations
(Also published at timhayward.wordpress)
Official stories, according to the official story about them, are (nearly) always true. The ‘nearly’ gets mentioned just because, on rare...
Rough Beasts Slouching: An Interview with David A. Hughes
David A. Hughes is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln (UK). He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Oxford...
Contradictions in Engineering Public Reputation: Propaganda and Ursula Von Der Leyen
The term propaganda is often liberally applied to the current context and stage of political/geopolitical development of the Western world (the Global North). At...
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...
Verdict in Trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber
Does the right to peacefully protest and freedom of speech still exist in Canada?
The Freedom Convoy was sparked by the Liberal government’s insistence that...
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...
Agitation and Integration Propaganda in the Covid Era
Introduction
Typically, when we think of language as a system of communication peculiar to people in a particular social milieu, we might immediately imagine the...
Understanding Aaron Bushnell’s Suicide Outside the Israeli Embassy
Introduction
On Sunday 25 February, US Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell, 25, set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. He did...