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...
The Vietnam War: Riding The Tiger – the problem with Ken Burns’ Vietnam documentary
“The most ominous danger we face comes from the marginalization and destruction of institutions, including the courts, academia, legislative bodies, cultural organizations and the...
Making Sense of a Potentially Nuclear Conflict
(Also published at substack.com)
In the ongoing daily struggle to make sense of the conflict, here are my current overall conclusions as to what is...
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...
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...
Ukraine’s (In)dependence Day: Utter Dependence on Neocon Death Lust
Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day on August 24 - this is also the anniversary of the launch of its counteroffensive last year on Kherson...
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...
Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State
Introduction
The response to the “Covid-19 pandemic” has much in common with the birth of the Third Reich. Agamben (2021, 8), for example, likens the...
Why We Must Fix the Media – and Save the World
Imagine if you will…
An evil dictator is on the brink of making a nuclear bomb at a secret facility carved deep inside the Zagros mountains....
Deception through omission: ‘The War on the OPCW’
An academic paper from the University of New South Wales in Australia describes four incidents where a virtual firehose of Russian propaganda was directed...