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...
Orisanmi Burton’s ‘Tip of the Spear’: a review by Professor Jared Ball
I decenter these duly noted, juridically mediated, and scholastically authorized sources of evidence, focussing instead on “discredited,” “inadmissible,” and “untrustworthy” modes of knowledge, analysis...
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...
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...
Manifesto for Peace Media in the 21st Century
Professors and researchers in the field of communication launch a manifesto calling for the media to serve peace.
In the midst of an upsurge of...
The Johan Galtung Approach to Taboo Topics
Published simultaneously with The International Center for 9/11 Justice
A topic that is virtually never allowed to be addressed within the hallowed halls of academia...
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...
Visualizing Power in a Post-Kitsch World
The term 'kitsch' describes that element of 'poor taste' often seen in chintzy, factory-made objects intended to stir strong emotions in consumers who experience...
“Theaters of War”
Decades of movie award ceremonies and other celebrations of the “seventh art” could easily fool us into thinking that the film industry is (and...
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...