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...
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...
Press or propaganda? How Western-propped media groups drive public opinion, policy, and regime change...
Originally published at almayadeen.net
The intelligence community’s “color revolution” playbook is simple: spur protests in foreign countries, make them appear organic and popular, and then...
Freedom Convoy Protesters in Crosshairs of Illiberal Canadian Government
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures...
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...
Greg Philo (1947-2024) – Researcher, Mentor, above all an empirical sociologist
I first met Greg in the summer of 1985 just after I had finished my first degree. I walked into his office, knocked on...
The Real Problem of Disinformation
According to the UK Government, which has set up a dedicated Counter-Disinformation Unit, there is a ‘danger that hostile actors use online disinformation to undermine our...
How “Censorship” Became “The Fight Against Disinformation” in Germany: A Story in Six Steps
Step 1: 2014 – Ukraine
After the coup in Kiev in 2014, the media across the spectrum — from right to left — started reporting...
Propaganda and Trauma
Geoff was on the 106th Floor of the World Trade Centre’s north tower. The attacks on America of September 11th 2001 were viewed in real-time by...