Ukraine and the “Disinformation” Project: How Universities, NATO, and Intelligence Agencies Suppress Dissent

Tamara Lorincz  has a Masters in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford and a Law degree and MBA from Dalhousie University. She’s a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada. Tamara is also on the board of the Global Network…

Lie, Cheat, and Steal: The CIA’s Disastrous Scientific Legacy

Owen Marshall Seena Mavaddat As the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, it has made conspicuous efforts to rebrand itself as a progressive force for scientific and technological change. Facing the retirement of its notoriously “pale, male, and Yale” Baby Boomer cohort, it has awkwardly adopted the language of neurodiversity and intersectionality…

Entertainment or Propaganda? Washington’s Insidious Grip on the Arts

Matt Alford Is it any wonder that 30 per cent of Americans in a poll said they want to bomb Agrabah, the capital city in Disney’s Aladdin? An evil  dictator is on the brink of making a nuclear bomb at a secret facility carved deep inside the Zagros mountains. With no option, the American military deploys jets…

The Western Media Disinformation Campaign: Fall of Bakhmut

Gilbert Doctorow Our language is in constant evolution. Partly this is bottom up, from the inventiveness of creative personalities or writers for commercial advertising. Partly it is top down, from the powers that be as they seek to manipulate and control the thought processes of the broad public. My brief essay today addresses the latter…

Cognitive Warfare: Hate and Fear in the Electoral Communication Menu

Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez Since the ruling class wants the “new” war scenarios to be the brains directed by NATO they also want the “new generation” ideological communicational armaments to be installed there, for hybrid and unrestricted demoralizing conflicts; they also want us to be fond of them, to accept that they have always been…

Canadians Challenge Calls for a Foreign Influence Registry

Daniel Xie On April 14, 2023, Petition E-4395 became available for signature on the House of Commons website. This petition was drafted in response to plans for the implementation of a “Foreign Influence Transparency Registry” that is being considered by the Trudeau government; this being in response to baseless allegations being spread by CSIS and…

Patterns of Deception and Deviance in the Post-Truth Period

Daniel Broudy “Let no man deceive you by any means …” – 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3 1. Introduction Patterns of deception are everywhere and their deeper meanings patently plain. We need only be willing to see what is present before our eyes and try to notice, too, what is absent. Such are some of the key…

NATO’s Fabulators

Joshua Rathz ‘That reptile’, Brecht once wrote in his journal, referring to Thomas Mann, ‘cannot imagine anyone doing anything for Germany (and against Hitler) without orders from anywhere’. The Manns had been spreading rumours around Los Angeles that Brecht was Moscow’s pawn: ‘slurs . . . they know full well can do a great deal…

The Coming War

John Pilger Dec. 20, 2008: Protesters in Montreal threw shoes at a target poster of President George Bush outside the U.S. Consulate to show support for the Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeizi , who threw his shoe at the real Bush. (Anirudh Koul, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost…

Arsonist Ex-Ukrainian Government Minister Assisted Canadian Government-Funded Nazi Propaganda Bus Tour

Christian Shingiro and Aidan Jonah The Trade Unions Building in Odessa burning in 2014, after neo-Nazis and other right-wing forces, counting Stepan Kubiv among them, set it on fire. 42 Ukrainians opposed to the Maidan coup were killed in the fire. (Source) ATIP requests and an interview with Ukrainian economist Roman Gubriienko have revealed that…

Cancelling Habermas

Stephan Sander-Faes On Feb. 15, 2023, left-liberal newspaper Die Zeit published an op-ed by Eva Illouz with the meaningful title ‘ Denouncing the Philosopher’s Calls for Negotiations, Intellectuals and Media Render Germany’s Reckoning with its Nazi Past a Farce I long for a total victory’ (orig. Ich wünsche mir einen totalen Sieg). Three days later, on Feb. 18,…

Fascist RESTRICT Bill is the State’s Reaction to an Irreversible Escalation in Class Conflict

Rainer Shea  With the introduction of the RESTRICT bill, the element of the ruling elite that’s most committed to advancing imperialism has made its intentions clear: to criminalize anti-imperialist activities and sentiments, starting with efforts to build solidarity with anti-imperialist countries. Should it pass, it will make the organizers I know whose job is to…

Canada’s Legacy Press Smears Assange to Deny the Public’s Right to Know

Peter Biesterfeld Ithaka the Movie (@IthakaMovie). Free Julian Assange advocates with the Shiptons after a screening of Ithaka in Toronto, Ontario. ‘Death spiral’ is an apt description of the status of Canadian establishment journalism today, journalism that misinforms Canadian news consumers about international affairs, coverage that fails to bring reliable insight and understanding of Canada’s…

The Nord Stream Ghost: The False Details in the CIA’s Cover Story

Seymour HershGas emanating from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea, September 28, 2022. / Swedish Coast Guard. America’s Central Intelligence Agency is constantly running covert operations around the world, and all must have a cover story in case things go badly, as they often do. It is just as important to have…

Western Analysts Do Not Understand Psychological War Behind Ukrainian Frontlines

Lucas Leiroz In order to understand the psychological level of the conflict, it is necessary to take into account who the real sides are. It is not a war between Moscow and Kiev, but between the collective West and Russia. In its psychological games, the Russian side is interested in dissuading the West, not in…

Leaked Emails: ‘Independent’ SAGE Crushed Dissent Over COVID Restrictions

Kit Klarenberg On November 21st 2022, The Grayzone exposed how the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (iSAGE), which relentlessly sought to influence public perceptions and government policy on the COVID19 pandemic, is a highly partisan political activist sect, possessed of unclear connections to intelligence actors, secretly coordinating with and acting upon the orders of controversial  Observer  writer…

Haiti, Syria and Beyond: How Canada’s Fourth Estate Fails to Serve the Public’s Right to Know

Peter Biesterfeld CF Editorial Note: This is part two of Peter Biesterfeld’s series for The Canada Files: Facts are Subversive: How Canada’s Mainstream Media Spreads Disinformation about the Conflict in Ukraine. It focuses on how Canada’s mainstream media is failing Canadians with its foreign policy coverage. What follows is a critical examination of the reliability…

Canada: More Rogue CSIS Spies Revealed Amidst Anti-China Psy-op

Aidan Jonah On March 16, 2023, on the CBC’s Power & Politics show, ex-Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart said two Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents visited him in May 2022 and alerted him to supposed Chinese election interference out of frustration in hopes of him taking action. Stewart said the agents did this because they…