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...
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...
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...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 6: Pride in Prejudice; The manipulation of perception through “pre-bunking”
(Part 6 of the series “Propaganda for Beginners”: Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.)
What is “pre-bunking” and why is it dangerous? It is a method of...
Green Lighting Long-Range Missiles, and the Future World Order
Standing Down for Putin?
Mid-week of the week of September 8-14, many analysts, including myself, had expected with a high degree of certainty that the...
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...
Bellingcat attacks Bonanza Media
Editors' Note: Controversy over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has persisted with the West and its allies blaming the pro-Russian separatists in...
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...
Propaganda and Engineering Perception in the West Russia Conflict
In the history of politically organised society, propaganda serves as a tool for engineering public perception, opinion and reaction to events by creating an...
Triumphalism, pro-NATO and pro-Russian
Those of us who began chronicling the current NATO proxy war with Russia over Ukraine from the launch of the Russian SMO in February...