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...
Nuclear Threat and Bluff
On the face of it, it would seem that statements from Moscow indicating Russian preparedness to resort to nuclear weapons are numerous. I note...
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...
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...
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 Struggles for US Hegemony Against Russia
Editorial Note: As events rapidly unfold in the Middle East, along with the fall of the Syrian Government, Professor Boyd-Barrett assesses emerging dynamics and...
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...
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...
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...
Schrödinger’s novichok: 12 points from the Dawn Sturgess inquiry, part 3
What happens when official evidence about a nerve agent death exists in impossible dual states? Part three of a three-part report on the Dawn...