Nuclear Threat and Bluff
On the face of it, it would seem that statements from Moscow indicating Russian preparedness to resort to nuclear weapons are numerous. I note...
The Atrocity of Western Mainstream Media
My 2017 book, Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis: A Study in Conflict Propaganda (Routledge), chronicles the absurdly one-sided tunnel vision of Western...
Fog over Gaza: Examining 12 lingering questions on the conflict
It is now a month since the shocking events, and more shocking aftermath, of the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas. In its...
Stoned Age in the Counterrevolution
I read this morning that the USA and the UK are hitting dozens of Houthi positions in Yemen. I don't know whether this is...
Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO VI: From war propaganda to peace journalism
This series has argued that the war in Ukraine is being fuelled by a propaganda campaign which hides previous and current NATO/US aggressiveness towards Russia...
Five Years On: The OPCW-Douma Deception Continues
(Also published at UK Column and OffGuardian)
On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack...
Springtime for Neonazism
Far-Right Aesthetics and WW2 Revisionism Making for Strange Bedfellows in Austrian Legacy Media, Politics, and the Judiciary
Leading voices of Europe’s political-media complex (PMC) are...
Long and Windy End to December 2024
(Written on September 26)
Along with some other non-mainstream analysts, I had formed the impression earlier in the summer of this year - taking into...
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...
Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...