If we determine to imagine the world as machine, then ‘reality’ will present itself as a machine, Alastair Crooke writes. For the last four hundred years, west Europeans have lived one very particular ‘vision’; one that stands poles-apart from that which went earlier. As Galileo pursued his experimentation in Italy, it was Francis Bacon who…
The island nation of Sri Lanka, located south-southeast of India in the Indian Ocean has suffered economic and now political chaos that has grabbed international headlines. The Western media has floated narratives ranging from “debt trap diplomacy” perpetrated by China and its Belt and Road Initiative to food shortages spurred by Russia’s “blockade” of the…
The ideologically driven prevailing narrative propagated by Western influencers and officials is surprisingly being discredited by none other than one of its main masterminds, Tony Blair himself, though he isn’t doing this out of charity in selfless pursuit of enlightening the Western masses but solely because he’s convinced that failing to accurately assess the global…
Governments of many countries have recently been talking more and more about a possible food crisis in the near future, actively involving representatives from the UN and other international organizations, and numerous media platforms in this information campaign. Yet, in addition to drawing everyone’s attention to the issue of combating hunger, which is especially threatening…
The G7 summit in Bavaria and the Nato summit in Madrid were supposed to announce the West’s punishment of the Kremlin for its “special military operation in Ukraine”. But, if the image given was that of Western unity, the reality attests to their disconnection from reality, their loss of audience in the world and ultimately…
Specific propaganda, small lies, can be identified, but there is an “ambient” propaganda that permeates every atmosphere where people exist. William Casey, the one time head of the CIA, said, “We will know our disinformation project is complete when everything the U.S. public believes is false.” He may have regretted that uncharacteristic lapse into truth,…
