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...
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...
The War Against Iran: 30 Years in the Making
There is a grim inevitability about the developing war aimed at overthrowing the Iranian government. It might not seem this way for the millions...
Thoughts about Weapons in the Context of the NATO-Russia War
A common motif to the narrative of NATO conflict in Ukraine has to do with war profiteering by the arms industries.
There is absolutely nothing...
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...
The Warped Logic of Douglas Murray
Sooner rather than later, every student of propaganda has to face the fact that a lot of what the propagandist says is not designed...
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 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...
Models of War Propaganda and Media
The Study of Propaganda
The formal study of propaganda is impregnated with academic discourses from literature (including rhetoric and narrative), linguistics (semiotics), sociolinguistics (discourse), psychology...
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...