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So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their exhibition, Make Art Not War. I couldn’t turn them down. As my readers may have noticed, I haven’t had very much to say about “The War on …

Originally published by Propaganda in Focus “All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal”. Albert Einstein, in a letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917) With the coordinated global release of the Covid-19 narrative in late 2019 and the subsequent illogical demands of …

On 19 April 2024, the Philippines Supreme Court issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM eggplant in the country. The Stop Golden Rice Network says that the court decision is a victory for farmers and consumers everywhere as the decision goes beyond Golden Rice and insecticidal …

“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.” J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of …

It should surprise no-one that, in the middle of the 6-month liquidation of the Gaza concentration camp by the Israel Defense Forces, the UK film industry released not one but two films about the ‘Holocaust’.[1] One Life, a UK film about a British man who helped Jews from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, was released in the UK …

One thing that really annoys me is this idealistic quest for a perfect society. Whether this quest comes from the ultra-religious or from the maniacs heading up the New World Order or even from average everyday folks who think that humans can all be herded into some ideal group of nice neighbourly Mr. Rogers types. …

Breaking news, from just a couple of hours ago, is that five British men have been charged with “conducting hostile activity in the UK to benefit Russia”. Details are still scarce, but the charges are said to be linked to a fire in March, which the Crown Prosecution Service described as “an arson attack on …

Stavroula Pabst joins James Corbett to discuss her recent article, “Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare.” From the military origins of brain-chip interfaces and neuroscience to the geopolitical ramifications of neuroweapons to the suspicious characters forwarding the controlled opposition “neurorights” movement, Pabst dives deep into the history and future of the age of neurowarfare. Sources …

Today is St George’s Day, and it’s also Shakespeare’s Birthday …not really. The truth is it’s a guess. William Shaksper, “the man from Stratford”, is known to have been baptised on April 26th and since babies of that time were generally baptized quite quickly, it stands to reason he was born sometime in the preceding …

Asylum seekers and trafficking victims among individuals hit by failures to provide copies of personal data

Angelina de los Santos won national press award for reporting on police failures to investigate cases of missing women

Politicians call for an end to secret donations, following an investigation by openDemocracy

Southampton University slammed after openDemocracy uncovered its involvement in Exxon’s ‘greenwashing’ project

New guidelines require newly trained nurses to work in Nigeria for two years after 42,000 left country since 2021

Chioma Okoli was arrested after claiming puree had too much sugar – raising fears over freedom of speech

Attention has returned to atrocities Israel is inflicting on Palestinians, but Biden still won’t call for ceasefire

Lives of queer communities in Ghana hang in the balance as they await Supreme Court’s ruling on draconian new bill

Protests and mass exodus reveal Cubans’ mistrust of Communist rulers – and highlight revolution’s failure

A right-wing political and media ecosystem pushing a US-style anti-abortion agenda is gaining traction in the UK