Wednesday, November 29, 2023

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...

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...

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...

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...

Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO Part III: From Peace to War

(Note from the Editors: This article is Part III of a series of six which will be published on a weekly basis; A version...

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...

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...

Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO Part I: From Propaganda and War to Peace Journalism and Conflict Resolution

(Note from the Editors: This article is Part I of a series of six which will be published on a weekly basis; A version...

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...

The “Best Evidence” Contradicting The Official Position on 9/11: Excerpts from 9/11 Unmasked: An...

“The 9/11 attacks ushered in a new age of propaganda about terrorism. Those events, and the resulting “war on terror,” profoundly increased the value...