The Conspiracy Label as a Tool of Propaganda, Part I: Origins and Organizations Behind...
Introduction
On the afternoon of March 9th, 2022, the current White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, used the United States government official Twitter account, @PressSec,...
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....
Threats to Freedom of Expression: Covid-19, the ‘fact checking counter-disinformation industry’, and online harm...
(Also published by PANDA and at PANDA substack)
We are living through an era in which freedom of expression is evaporating. Numerous scientists have been...
Patterns of Deception and Deviance in the Post-Truth Period
“Let no man deceive you by any means …”
— 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3
1. Introduction
Patterns of deception are everywhere and their deeper meanings patently plain....
The Israel Lobby and its influence over British political decision-making
Writing an article on Israel can be perceived as having additional risks to a similar publication made on the critical discussion of any other...
Katharine Gun on Julian Assange
In a few days, Home Secretary Priti Patel will announce whether or not Wikileaks Founder, journalist and publisher Julian Assange should be extradited to...
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...
Shifting Standards: Western Media and the Ukrainian ‘Myrotvorets’ Hit List
As war rages, Ukrainian blacklist Myrotvorets, which means “Peacemaker” in Ukrainian, continues to add to its website the names of activists, politicians, journalists, and...
Resuscitating the Comatose: The Defibrillating Fine Art of John Whitehead
Introduction
Michelangelo mastered mannerism, Georges Seurat pointillism, Vincent Van Gogh impressionism, Edvard Munch expressionism, and Pablo Picasso cubism. The multiplicity of movements developed by countless...
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...