WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #17
The Interviewee: Mark Crispin Miller is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. His research interests include modern propaganda, history and tactics of advertising, American film,...
The Propaganda War (And How to Fight It)
CJ Hopkins Every totalitarian system in history has used the power of visual propaganda to generate a new “reality,” one that reifies its official ideology, remaking the world in...
Inside Biden’s new “domestic terrorism” strategy
Kit Knightly
Following the (completely contrived) Capitol Hill “riot” on January 6th, Joe Biden made it clear – or rather, the people that control Joe Biden made it clear – “domestic...
The Etymological Animal Must Slip Out of the Cage of Habit to Grasp Truth
Edward Curtin Etymology – from Greek, etymos, true, real, actual (the study of roots) Life is full of slips. Words slip out of our mouths to surprise us. Thoughts...
WATCH: Antiganda
James Corbett’s latest edition of #SolutionsWatch continues the discussion on “positive propaganda” by looking at some examples of #antiganda. Activists around the world are creating eye-catching messages designed to...
A Primer for the Propagandized: Fear Is the Mind-Killer
Margaret Anna Alice “Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.” George Orwell The noose is dangling gently around our necks. Every day, they cinch it tighter. By the...
Why I Became a “Covid Denier”
Kevin Smith There have been a wide selection of articles published here over the last year on Covid-19 and lockdowns. Since March, the thinking of many of us has...
Why this campaign of terror?
Gillian Dymond In the morning, the world is as the world should be. The sun rises, as predicted for this part of England in early December, at around twenty...
Fascist Kabuki
John Steppling “There is no question that most television is a waste of time. The people connected with it realize how bad programming is and go ahead with their...
Killing Unknown
It’s hard to talk about the myriad issues piled in our society in a cohesive way, and when we try, we often get the same response: “What is your...
PCR Inventor: “It doesn’t tell you that you are sick”
There has been a great deal of controversy over claims that Kary Mullis, the creator of the PCR technology that is being widely used to test for so-called ‘cases’...
Contrived Spectacles of “Protecting and Caring for the People”
Thomas Harrington The 1970s marked an important turning point in the history of Western democracies. Having led their populations to the obscene carnage of World War II in reaction...
From Terrorists to Viruses: Dystopian Progress
Edward Curtin For anyone old enough to have been alive and aware of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and of so-called COVID-19 in 2020, memory may serve to...
The “Russian vaccine hack” is a 3-for-1 deal on propaganda
Kit Knightly
The Guardian, and all the other predictable voices, are currently reporting that Russian “state sponsored hackers” have been attempting to steal “medical secrets” from British pharmaceutical researchers. At this...
Lies, Damned Lies and Covid19
Michael Lesher Growing up as I did in the Cold War, I still experience a special kind of shudder whenever I come across an anecdote like that of Katya...
The Question Of Evidence When Governments Push Political Narratives
Today, in the background of the risk of world conflict and threat to health and our way of life arising from Covid-19, it’s never been more important to be...
This Week in The Guardian #1
Five years ago this month, OffGuardian posted its first article. Since then nearly 4000 more have been posted, all with pretty much the same aim – fact-checking the media,...
Censorship is the death of Democracy
Eric Zuesse No democracy can survive censorship. If there is censorship, then each individual cannot make his/her own decisions (voting decisions or otherwise) on the basis of truth but...
The USA’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions
Edward Curtin This is an updated and revised version of the full cover-story that appeared in the important publication, garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics, Issue 003....
WaPo, CNN pile on in attempt to discredit American Herald Tribune
Prof. Anthony Hall In responding to an attack on a media venue about which I care a lot, this Canadian from Alberta Canada is being pulled into the swamp....
