Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Propaganda Trudeau Style

“What do you do with someone with an allergy? What do you do with someone who’s immunocompromised, or someone who for religious reasons…or deep...
A Murder Is Announced By Agatha Christie

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...

What we don’t know is killing us: The urgency of propaganda study under COVID

For those of us who study propaganda critically, and seek to do this all-important work as public intellectuals, these last two years have been...
Jurgen Habermas Portrait

Cancelling Habermas

On Feb. 15, 2023, left-liberal newspaper Die Zeit published an op-ed by Eva Illouz with the meaningful title ‘I long for a total victory’...

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...

Do We Need a Popular Front Against Contemporary Fascism?

‘Fascism’ today is an invective and a tool of propaganda rather than a concept helping us to understand matters. Yet the lockdowns in the name of...
Attica prison riot memorial

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...
Benjamin Netanyahu portrait

Propaganda in the Interpretations and Representations of the Gaza War

The event that began with the Hamas attack on Israel was narrated in Western mass media and mainstream politics as shocking the world by...

Symposium: Prospects for Rights in the COVID-19 Times

Editors’ Note: There is no shortage of scholars who have come out publicly to say that the story of COVID-19 is a story about...

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...