The “Pentagon Papers’ is making the rounds as the big new event of the past couple of weeks. The controversy is over the ‘leaks’ of strategic briefing documents detailing US future plans for the war in Ukraine. I’ve watched this story unfold with a weather eye but wanted to wait to see how it would…
Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In order to narrative-manage the public conversation about the Iraq War on the 20th anniversary of the invasion, those who helped unleash that horror upon our world have briefly paused their relentless torrent of “Ukraine proves the hawks were always right” takes to churn out a deluge of…
There are plenty of other ways to rekindle the Western public’s interest in the Ukrainian Conflict without disgustingly misportraying literal jihadis (in the words of Sky News’ Dominic Waghorn prior to them being removed like Breitbart reported) as supposed heroes. Far from convincing average folks that Kiev’s cause is supposedly as righteous as their officials…
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it. In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified…
It’s becoming harder and harder for any British PM to state that the British are not part of the war in Ukraine, Martin Jay writes. To understand how the British media works and what’s behind the decisions it takes you don’t have to be very bright at all. In fact, you can be really quite…
“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville…
