Understanding the Iranian Narrative
On 26 June 2022 Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film Holy...
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...
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...
Cookie Cutter Propaganda and Herd Mentality in an Era of Geopolitical Transformation
Introduction
In the midst of the current global instability that features geopolitical flashpoints around the world, and as the system of international relations and power...
Misinformation or Public Debate?
Introduction
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of concern about online misinformation and disinformation, with efforts to thwart it. In many cases, claims...
Symposium: Silencing the Academics
If COINTELPRO, a government-sponsored program from the 1950s to the 1970s, was meant to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” alternative perspectives on...
Journalist and Film Maker John Pilger 1939-2023
In the worlds of journalism and political activism, John Pilger stands out as one of the greatest and most courageous voices of our time....
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...
Democracy Lost: Propaganda, Character Assassination and the Campaign Against Professor David Miller
On October 1st 2021, the University of Bristol decided to buckle in the face of a near 3 year-long militant Zionist campaign and fire Professor...
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...