Media Converges on the Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat

Media Converges on the Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat

Listen to a reading of this article: So in case you haven’t been keeping up it’s been pretty thoroughly confirmed that the US government’s highly anticipated UFO report due this month won’t contain any significant revelations and certainly won’t verify anyone’s ideas about these phenomena being extraterrestrial in origin, but it absolutely will contain fearmongering…

Recantations Are All the Rage

Recantations Are All the Rage

Several things are happening simultaneously. Most important, Israel has lost the public opinion war in much of the world through its brutality during the recent attack on Gaza and it continues to lose ground even in the wake of a cease fire due to mass arrests of Palestinians and armed police intrusions in and around…

How Israel Uses Disinformation to Delegitimise the Palestinian Cause

How Israel Uses Disinformation to Delegitimise the Palestinian Cause

Over the past two weeks as Israeli air strikes killed at least 243 Palestinians, including 66 children, in Gaza, Israeli officials have been at the forefront of another war: sharing misleading and deceptive content about Palestine, much of it designed to portray Palestinians as violent, dishonest and deceitful, or to legitimise Israeli brutality. Israeli attacks on Gaza…

Focusing on Injustices in Just a Few ‘Bad’ Nations is a Dangerous Game

Focusing on Injustices in Just a Few ‘Bad’ Nations is a Dangerous Game

During the first Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union injustice and human rights increasingly became a central issue. This ought to have been a positive development, but it was devalued by partisan use and the issue turned into an instrument of propaganda. The essence of such propaganda is not lies or even…

Sheikh Jarrah: How the US Media Is Erasing Israel’s Crimes

Sheikh Jarrah: How the US Media Is Erasing Israel’s Crimes

Over the past week, Jewish settlers with thick Brooklyn accents were caught on camera bullying their way into Palestinian homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.  “If I don’t steal your home, someone else will steal it,” one settler said to Mona al-Kurd, a Palestinian woman whose house was being invaded, in a…