Propaganda in Focus provides a forum for expert opinion and analysis about propaganda.
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces the presenters and outlines the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and Propaganda In Focus.
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces the symposium presenters and outlines the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and Propaganda In Focus.
In this talk, Professor Jared Ball discusses the context in which the field of Black-Africana studies is situated within the Western academy and the challenges and various pressures exerted upon academics at traditionally black colleges in the United States. How is academic discourse at present affected by strange paradoxes? He presents a perspective that is hardly broached about a field of study that had emerged as an officially unsanctioned intellectual bloc of the black liberation struggle which has since become elemental to the sanctioned effort by the state to suppress collective memory of that struggle. The talk deconstructs keywords such as “colonisation”, “insurgency”, “empire”, and “citizen” to bring clarity to W.E.B. DuBois' concept of the “propaganda of history”. Jared can be found@imixwhatilikeon most social media, and his decades ofemancipatory journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found atimixwhatilike.org.
In 2017 Dr. Piers Robinson established the Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda which was quickly subjected to mainstream/corporate media attacks. In this presentation, Piers describes these character assassination/smear attacks as well as setting out the motivations for them. The controversy the working group had stumbled upon was that of a strategic deception, perpetrated by the US, UK and French governments, regarding chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the corruption and manipulation of the Fact Finding Missions (FFMs) co-ordinated by the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett develops a discussion of the larger historical context in which states have intervened in the policing of public speech and have attempted to control only the 'acceptable' ideas, the 'official' points of view, and the (re)production of knowledge.
Dr David Miller’s presentation sets out the details of his experience at the University of Bristol, the concerted campaign to smear him, his firing, and then the subsequent and successful industrial tribunal which found that Bristol University guilty of unfair dismissal. David’s vindication was also a land mark ruling protecting the right to criticise Zionism.
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces the presenters and outlines the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and Propaganda In Focus.
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces Propaganda In Focus and outlines the importance of propaganda study in modern discourse.
The Organisation for Propaganda Studies, in collaboration with UK Column and Propaganda in Focus, presents Silencing the Academics Sunday 18th February, 2024, – [6-9pm UK Time] [7-10pm CET] [1-4pm EST]. Watch the livestream here. We are living through times of great political and social upheaval a...
Latest geo-political analysis and commentary from Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett in Propaganda In Focus 'Stoned Age in the Counterrevolution' https://propagandainfocus.com/stoned-age-in-the-counterrevolution/ via ://twitter.com/propagandafocus
I read this morning that the USA and the UK are hitting dozens of Houthi positions in Yemen. I don’t know whether this is their eleventh or twelfth major missile attack in defense of Red Sea shipping and in a clear vote of their support for the ongoing murder of civilians in Gaza on behalf […]
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'Proton Mail: Imperialist Stooge?' https://propagandainfocus.com/proton-mail-imperialist-stooge/ via ://twitter.com/propagandafocus
Proton, known for its privacy-centric email service Proton Mail, announced at the end of 2023 that it would help raise money for controversial group Bellingcat, a documented proxy British intelligence operation, through its annual Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser. An organization jump started by....
Dr Colin Alexander, in Propaganda In Focus 'The Israel Lobby and its influence over British political decision-making'
Writing an article on Israel can be perceived as having additional risks to a similar publication made on the critical discussion of any other country’s policies and political activities. As a political communications researcher, I have written pieces concerning the influence operations of many na...
Professor Brian Martin's 'Misinformation or Public Debate? , published in Propaganda In Focus https://propagandainfocus.com/misinformation-or-public-debate/ via ://twitter.com/propagandafocus
Introduction In recent years, there has been an upsurge of concern about online misinformation and disinformation, with efforts to thwart it. In many cases, claims about false information serve to justify censorship. To better understand what’s going on, it’s useful to examine assumptions underl...
In the worlds of journalism and political activism, John Pilger stands out as one of the greatest and most courageous voices of our time. In a career that reaches as far back as the Vietnam War, John has been a persistent thorn in the side of corrupt political power and, in particular, the West’s ...
'Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously, Part Two: Exit the Empire, Enter the Death Star' by Rich Ellefritz in Propaganda In Focus
(This article is the second installment of the series “Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously.” Part One can be read here.) “We’re doing what we’ve always done but from within the fortress of a company that can’t be canceled.” (TCNetwork December 12, 2023) “My goal in life is to say what I ...
'The Perils of Studying Propaganda', Piers Robinson discusses Prof. David Miller's experience in Propaganda In Focus
Researching and writing about propaganda can be tricky. It is not particularly popular amongst mainstream academics who sometimes become tetchy when confronted with the notion that propaganda is alive and well in liberal democracies. Acknowledging that powerful actors pour huge resources into managi...
Dear Readers, We have just reached our 100th article published since launching Propaganda in Focus back in May 2022, and our YouTube channel is ready to launch in the New Year. In order to maintain and further develop the publication, we do need to build our support and donations/contributions ba...
'The Warped Logic of Douglas Murray' by Daniel Espinosa, in Propaganda In Focus
Sooner rather than later, every student of propaganda has to face the fact that a lot of what the propagandist says is not designed to convince, but to provide self justification. In many cases, people choose their worldview and allegiances not after an objective and honest search for truth, but fol...
Latest from Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett, in 'Imagine There’s No Heaven, Nor NATO USA' https://propagandainfocus.com/imagine-theres-no-heaven-nor-nato-usa/ via ://twitter.com/propagandafocus
Jeffrey Sachs certainly has many interesting things to teach us about the history of Western-Russian relations, particularly around the time of Gorbachev’s fateful transition to capitalism in the late 1980s. I once had the privilege of meeting Gorbachev at his foundation in Moscow and while I do b...
Professor Tim Hayward gets to the heart of the matter here in 'Who Guards NewsGuard? Academics asleep on the job' in Propaganda In Focus https://propagandainfocus.com/who-guards-newsguard-academics-asleep-on-the-job/ via ://twitter.com/propagandafocus
Recently, I was reading ‘an important paper’ recommended by a philosopher who specialises in epistemology (the study of how we know what we think we know). The paper (Chen et al 2023) investigates the question: ‘Do online platforms facilitate the consumption of potentially harmful content?’ ...
I decenter these duly noted, juridically mediated, and scholastically authorized sources of evidence, focussing instead on “discredited,” “inadmissible,” and “untrustworthy” modes of knowledge, analysis and narration. I construct my argument by thinking and theorizing with Black rebels, ...
Professor Gavan Gray, 'Fog Over Gaza', in Propaganda In Focus
It is now a month since the shocking events, and more shocking aftermath, of the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas. In its wake, the fog of war prevented clear analysis of exactly what occurred with rumors and disinformation from both sides creating confusion on important topics. While some have...
The event that began with the Hamas attack on Israel was narrated in Western mass media and mainstream politics as shocking the world by the unexpected nature and the raw brutality of it. A gory bolt from the blue, so to speak. This commentary takes a preliminary look at the propaganda value of the....
Latest from Tim Norman in Propaganda In Focus 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 at the world’s chemical weapons watchdog: the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. But all four narratives omit key facts. Wit...
Interview with Dr Matt Alford, in Propaganda In Focus “Want a Civilized World? You Won’t Get There Watching Netflix”
Editors Note: This interview with Dr. Matt Alford, co-producer on Theaters of War (2022) and The Writer with No Hands (2014), was originally conducted by Adam Bouiti for a forthcoming untitled volume on political culture published in French. It has been translated, adapted and arranged for Publicati...
Tail Wags the Dog, Thought provoking paper by Professor Pigott, in Propaganda In Focus
The tail wags the dog: Governance by narrative control Propaganda is endemic to politics, economics, and culture in mass society. Any attempt to make sense of the modern world must take propaganda into account. To propagandize is to disseminate and popularize narratives which people then use to make...
A fascinating look behind the curtain of the censorship industrial complex by Professor Tim Hayward: 'Academic Complicity in the Censorship Industry: The Case of Kate Starbird' in Propaganda In Focus
The U.S. Congress has recently heard a report from the House Judiciary Committee which presents disturbing allegations about U.S. Government involvement in surveillance and censorship focused on citizens’ social media activities. The report raises concerns about breaches of the U.S. Constitution.....
As NATO strategy in Ukraine bumps up against hard reality, read Professor Boyd-Barrett's latest analysis on where things are going, . https://propagandainfocus.com/long-and-windy-end-to-december-2024/ Also available in
' Substack page: https://propagandainfocus.substack.com/p/long-and-windy-end-to-december-2024
'Long and Windy End to December 2024', Professor Boyd-Barrett's latest on the Ukraine war, https://propagandainfocus.com/long-and-windy-end-to-december-2024/ via Propaganda In Focus ://twitter.com/propagandafocus
(Written on September 26) Along with some other non-mainstream analysts, I had formed the impression earlier in the summer of this year – taking into account what Brian Berletic and others were chronicling as a Ukrainian army that was failing, amidst diminishing generosity of supplies from the col...
(Updated July 2023 based upon article originally published by PANDA in March 2022) It has been three years since COVID-19 emerged as a dominant and, for some time, all-consuming issue. Now there are signs we are witnessing the unravelling of some of the key policy responses – blanket lockdowns and...
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In this talk, Professor Jared Ball discusses the context in which the field of Black-Africana studies is situated within the Western academy and the challenges and various pressures exerted upon academics at traditionally black colleges in the United States. How is academic discourse at present affected by strange paradoxes? He presents a perspective that is hardly broached about a field of study that had emerged as an officially unsanctioned intellectual bloc of the black liberation struggle which has since become elemental to the sanctioned effort by the state to suppress collective memory of that struggle. The talk deconstructs keywords such as “colonisation”, “insurgency”, “empire”, and “citizen” to bring clarity to W.E.B. DuBois' concept of the “propaganda of history”. Jared can be found@imixwhatilikeon most social media, and his decades ofemancipatory journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found atimixwhatilike.org.
In 2017 Dr. Piers Robinson established the Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda which was quickly subjected to mainstream/corporate media attacks. In this presentation, Piers describes these character assassination/smear attacks as well as setting out the motivations for them. The controversy the working group had stumbled upon was that of a strategic deception, perpetrated by the US, UK and French governments, regarding chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the corruption and manipulation of the Fact Finding Missions (FFMs) co-ordinated by the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett develops a discussion of the larger historical context in which states have intervened in the policing of public speech and have attempted to control only the 'acceptable' ideas, the 'official' points of view, and the (re)production of knowledge.
Dr David Miller’s presentation sets out the details of his experience at the University of Bristol, the concerted campaign to smear him, his firing, and then the subsequent and successful industrial tribunal which found that Bristol University guilty of unfair dismissal. David’s vindication was also a land mark ruling protecting the right to criticise Zionism.
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces the presenters and outlines the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and Propaganda In Focus.
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces Propaganda In Focus and outlines the importance of propaganda study in modern discourse.
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