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...
David Ray Griffin (1939-2022). The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
How big can a mind be?
If we’re lucky, we have threescore and ten years — in a very big wide world, full of history...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Salisbury Novichok Trail
Five years ago Russian assassins allegedly used a military grade nerve agent in an attempt to kill a Russian ex-spy living in the UK. They left...
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...