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...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 6: Pride in Prejudice; The manipulation of perception through “pre-bunking”
(Part 6 of the series “Propaganda for Beginners”: Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.)
What is “pre-bunking” and why is it dangerous? It is a method of...
The Propaganda Surrounding Nuclear Genocide
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 Vladimir Putin has spoken several times about using nuclear weapons. However, the initial attention...
War is Peace: How journalists vilify peace to rationalize war
Not too long ago, a meme was going viral on social media. It showed the horrified face of George Orwell, looking in disbelief and...
Attacks on Academic Freedom, the Times of London, and MI6
This article is also published at UK Column.
Once again, The Times newspaper is attacking academics who speak truth to power, with a new hit-piece. What the latest...
Green Lighting Long-Range Missiles, and the Future World Order
Standing Down for Putin?
Mid-week of the week of September 8-14, many analysts, including myself, had expected with a high degree of certainty that the...
Peace is a Process
There is a growing crescendo of chatter as to the possibility of peace in NATO’s proxy war against Russia over the bodies of hundreds...
Assessing NATO’s “Strategic Advantage”
In a recent posing to my Substack account (Empire, Communication and NATO Wars), I made reference to a Quincy Institute paper that argued that...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 2: Men with moustaches, or: Which threats do we react...
Part 2 of the series: Propaganda for Beginners. Part 1 available here.
(Editorial note: This article appeared first in German on NachDenkSeiten)
More than ten years...
The Tragedy of Yulia Skripal
Somewhere, isolated from the rest of the world, nerve agent victim Yulia Skripal recently turned 40. She miraculously survived her alleged exposure to a...