The UK government secretly used popular soap operas like EastEnders and Coronation Street to push vaccine propaganda during the pandemic, raising urgent questions about how much influence the state holds over British media, and how far officials are willing to go to manipulate public thought, opinion and behavior under the guise of public health.1 The findings echo May 2021 revelations that Read more

The resistance to the correction of error in scholarly publications is merely a symptom of a much larger systemic cancer corrupting professional and governmental institutions—indeed, all of institutional science. Research is driven not by a desire to determine objectively whether a hypothesis is valid, but rather by the will to make hypotheses appear true. The Read more

I propose that we accompany physical detox with a verbal detox: we need to purge our bloated vocabulary of several concepts that are poisoning our understanding of ourselves and the world. These concepts have been elaborated by people who would describe themselves as “self-aware,” “progressive,” and “liberated,” but they are actually terms more fit for Read more

Few people are familiar with Critical Theory and its related doctrines, yet these ideas today drive government policies and shape public attitudes. Capitalism is oppressive. Private property rights cause environmental destruction. Prosperity causes climate change. The most serious threat to the West is not China or Russia but its visceral disgust with itself. A growing Read more

How Reality is Manufactured By Joshua Stylman – Nov 13, 2024.1 “We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of,” Edward Bernays observed. “People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They Read more

“Generative artificial intelligence spreads across the Global South, and with it spread values, ideals and modes of thinking“ By Constantin von Hoffmeister, a political and cultural commentator from Germany, author of the books ‘MULTIPOLARITY!’ and ‘Esoteric Trumpism’, and editor-in-chief of Arktos Publishing. The machine speaks in English first. It rolls out across continents without flags, Read more

A commonly overlooked aspect of expertise is the ability to recognize and understand corruption. Many individuals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise often comes with a significant blind spot: a naive trust in institutions and a failure to grasp the pervasive nature of institutional corruption. The problem lies in specialization itself. Read more

Throughout the Covid event the UK Government, in keeping with many other countries, drew on behavioural-science interventions – often referred to as ‘nudges’ – to strengthen their public-health communications, and thereby increase compliance with the pandemic restrictions and subsequent vaccine roll-out. These psychological methods of persuasion often operate below people’s conscious awareness, and frequently rely Read more

We’re not just being influenced anymore. We’re being nudged – engineered, in fact. This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Nudging is simple, effective, and now even profitable behavioural science in action. It was originally developed by psychologists and economists to – in theory – help people make better choices. But now nudging is everywhere. It’s widespread Read more

We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power. This propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form, Read more