Review of American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda
“You can’t get to the truth through a lie.” – William Patrick Patterson
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public...
Analyzing the construction of victimhood in media war reporting
Victims of violence receive broadly varying types of media attention and representation depending on two factors: One, who perpetrated the violence and two, who...
Trump’s defeat at the hands of Aristotle in Iran
Aristotle wrote more than two thousand years ago that no speech can persuade if it betrays itself. However, faced with President Donald Trump’s communication...
Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model
Editors Note: This short article is part of our series Key Thinkers and Ideas in Propaganda Studies.
In 1988 Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky published...
Russiagate as Big Lie Construction
Introduction
The events commonly described as Russiagate invite invocation of the concept of the “Big Lie,” a lie so staggering in its magnitude and in...
The End of Pluralism and the Decline of Soft Power
“Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all possessed a great deal of soft power in the eyes of their acolytes, but that did not make it...
The Binary Narratives of the Rules Based Order’s Regime Change Propaganda Against Georgia
In the South Caucasus, the small state of Georgia has re-entered the news cycle of the Rules Based Order as being a problematic issue...
The ‘Marxist History’ War – the Struggle for History versus Interpretation
Since the end of the Cold War, Americans have increasingly used the terms 'Communist', 'socialist', or 'Marxist' as forms of slander to conjure up...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 5: Dehumanising and Humanising in Propaganda
Part 5 of the series “Propaganda for Beginners”: Read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.
In the world of propaganda and psychological warfare, language and visual representation...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 4: Propaganda Techniques Inspired by Crime Writing
Part 4 of the series: Propaganda for Beginners. Read Parts 1, 2, and 3.
Teaser
What do the techniques of crime writers, who want to...