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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Public Money, Private Crusades: The ‘ScienceUpFirst‘ Campaign and the New Politics of Misinformation
The Face of “Science Communication” in Canada
In recent years, a new genre of science communication has taken center stage in Canada. It doesn’t look...
Remembering Graeme MacQueen: by Kevin Ryan
A short article of remembrance by Kevin Ryan. Orignally published at Dig Within.
In the summer of 2006, at the newly formed Journal of 9/11 Studies, we...
Über die Dummheit: An Executed Nazi Resistance Hero Offers a Few Words to the...
The German theologian and Nazi resistance figure Dietrich Bonhoeffer defined stupidity, not as an individual intellectual deficit, but a power-borne disease spreading through the...
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...
When You Realize That You Are The Deep State: Reflections on the Trump-Epstein Cover-Up
This article is about the realization that you are the thing you hate. US President Donald Trump’s supporters and many of his political underlings...