The Normative Pressure Manipulation Loop
There is a plethora of techniques deployed by the state to lever compliance with their globalist agendas; censorship, propaganda, the smearing of critical voices,...
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...
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...
Professor David Miller Wins Employment Appeal Tribunal
First published at UK Column, republished in Propaganda in Focus with permission.
The judgment in my employment appeal tribunal case has finally been released, nearly...
Orisanmi Burton’s ‘Tip of the Spear’: a review by Professor Jared Ball
I decenter these duly noted, juridically mediated, and scholastically authorized sources of evidence, focussing instead on “discredited,” “inadmissible,” and “untrustworthy” modes of knowledge, analysis...
The Conspiracy Label as a Tool of Propaganda, Part IV: Closing My Case on...
In my closing installment for this series, I’d like to start with a joke I recently came across. Jokes and humor help speak truths...
The Tail Wags the Dog: Governance by Narrative Control
Propaganda is endemic to politics, economics, and culture in mass society. Any attempt to make sense of the modern world must take propaganda into...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 6: Pride in Prejudice; The manipulation of perception through “pre-bunking”
(Part 6 of the series “Propaganda for Beginners”: Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.)
What is “pre-bunking” and why is it dangerous? It is a method of...
Propaganda, Power and ‘Anthropogenic’ Climate Change
In 2020, governments created the largest single-year reduction in human CO₂ emissions ever recorded. At the peak of the global lockdowns, daily human-origin CO₂...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 1: The Primacy-Effect
(Editorial note: This article appeared first in German on NachDenkSeiten)
Introduction
Propaganda is a well-known and effective tool for manipulating public opinion. We are familiar with...