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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously, Part Two: Exit the Empire, Enter the Death Star
(This article is the second installment of the series "Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously." Part One can be read here.)
"We're doing what we've always...
Holiday Funding Drive
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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...
“Want a Civilized World? You Won’t Get There Watching Netflix”
Editors Note: This interview with Dr. Matt Alford, co-producer on Theaters of War (2022) and The Writer with No Hands (2014), was originally conducted...
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...