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...
Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously, Part Two: Exit the Empire, Enter the Death Star
(This article is the second installment of the series "Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously." Part One can be read here.)
"We're doing what we've always...
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...
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...
The Conspiracy Label as a Tool of Propaganda, Part II: The Multi-institutional Politics of...
(A follow-up to Part I: The Conspiracy Label as a Tool of Propaganda, Part I: Origins and Organizations Behind the Conspiracy Label)When my stepdaughter...
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...
Julian Assange and the Continuing Threats to Journalism
Also to be published by the Institute for the Public Interest
Like millions of people, I woke up on the 25th June, 2024 to a...
Propaganda, External Actors, and the South African Elections
In the wake of the International Court of Justice's ruling that there is a plausibility of genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza, it...
Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’
(Originally published by UK Column on October 10, 2021, featuring guest speakers from the Working Group on Propaganda and The 9/11 Global 'War on...
Testing the Matrix
Every society has a moment when the mask slips — when the gap between what is promised and what is delivered becomes too vast...