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...
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...
Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO Part II: From Peace to War
Part I of this series on the relations between Russia, Ukraine and the US (NATO) presented the general context, the key questions and the...
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...
Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO Part IV: From War to Peace
This article is Part IV in a series of six addressing the Ukraine war, war propaganda and peace journalism. It is also published in...
Diplomatic, Economic and Military Deficits
A statement on Ukraine from the Quad (US, Australia, Japan, and India) seems to reflect India’s continuing irritation with the behavior of the western...
Shifting Standards: Western Media and the Ukrainian ‘Myrotvorets’ Hit List
As war rages, Ukrainian blacklist Myrotvorets, which means “Peacemaker” in Ukrainian, continues to add to its website the names of activists, politicians, journalists, and...
The not-so-“invisible nation” sends mixed messages in its military propaganda
Independence advocates keep referring back to Civil War arguments that paradoxically demonstrate Taiwan's place within China's borders
I recently came across a trailer for a...
Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO Part V: From Politics to Propaganda
Previous articles in this series addressed the expansion of NATO, the US government’s refusal to negotiate on further expansion with Russia and its unwillingness...
The US President turns the “Global War on Terror” against US citizens
Around mid-May (2026), shortly after I had written my article questioning whether Trump might conduct a counterterrorism campaign in the Sahel and West Africa,(1)...