The Art of Media Warfare

Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez We must ensure that any coup attempt, destabilizing, demoralizing or manipulative action – economic, military or financial – financed by the CIA or its planetary network of accomplices, is immediately reversed and returns to them like a boomerang that explodes in their faces Let us put the dispute for meaning on…

Behind NATO’s ‘Cognitive Warfare’: ‘Battle for Your Brain’ Waged by Western Militaries

Ben Norton Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.” NATO is developing new forms of warfare to wage a “battle for the brain,” as…

Ghana’s Socialist Movement: A Revolutionary Experiment in Communication

Phillyp Mikell Congress of the Ghana Socialist Forum, which approved the transformation of the Forum into the Ghana Socialist Movement. Photo: Facebook of the SMG The organization built an enormous apparatus for the dissemination of socialist thought for ideological dispute and found in mass communication the key to organizing the working class Between July 31…

Ricardo Jiménez: “Here Ministers are Removed Based on Right-Wing Media Pressure and Old Police Reports.”

Carlos Aznárez Currently, the situation in Peru is worsening by the moment with the permanent offensive of the right wing against the government of Pedro Castillo, demonstrating how difficult it is to advance in fulfilling an electoral program that inspired the enthusiasm of an important sector of the population. The pressures exerted against former Foreign…

Juvenicide: A Crime of the Multidimensional War in Colombia

María Fernanda Barreto The systematic murder of Colombian youth by the Colombian State is gaining momentum (Photo: Colombia Informa). At the beginning of the 1990s as the victor of the “cold war”, which in reality had very hot expressions, the United States, having established itself since the second post-war period as the head of the…

Disinformation in Tigray: Manufacturing Consent For a Secessionist War

New African Institute Following many requests from academics, diplomats and the general public for a shortened version of the 72-page Disinformation in Tigray report, New Africa Institute publishes today an 18-page, summarized edition that recapitulates the popular publication while focusing on the most salient points of the report. The summarized edition, like the parent report,…

Reflections on Cuba’s Black Radical History, Revolutionary Health, and Grassroots Media

Semassa Boko and Jeanette Charles It is vitally necessary to bridge the gap in knowledge and dismantle US misinformation campaigns against Cuba’s realities for international English-speaking audiences. “We wanted to reach a young audience in the United States that is not typically exposed to engaging and in-depth stories about Latin America and US policy in the region.”…

Today, Defense of the Revolution Rests with the Media

Steve Lalla and Saheli Chowdhury Veteran combatant of Cuba’s revolutionary struggles, Comandante Víctor Dreke, in 2017. Photo: Le Soir/Dominique Duchesnes. Víctor Dreke, legendary commander of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, called for those defending the Revolution today to recognize that the battlefield of the 21st century is the media. The comments were made at a…

SINCO: The Digital Project that Interconnects the People’s Power in Venezuela

Mauricio Montes Breaking the dominant paradigms in information management. The Communal Integration System, SINCO, is an electronic government platform developed for direct and collective communication of social organizations in Venezuela. It is the Venezuelan experience based on the creation of Cybersyn in Chile, in 1972, when Salvador Allende defined a new State and a new…

Keys to Understanding Communication Warfare in Times of Pandemic

Ángeles Diez Diagnostic elements on the role of communication in the imperialist war in the context of the pandemic: Imperialist war is multiform and asymmetrical: it takes all possible forms and occurs in a situation of inequality. This is not new, it has always been so. However, it would be necessary to specify what this…

Semiotic Guerilla Against Bourgeois Manipulations of Conscience

We are urged by a semiotic guerrilla of direct action to produce, by all means, the indispensable cultural antibodies that exterminate, in a short time, the toxic influences of the media and the bourgeois ways to manipulate consciences. It does not take a great effort to identify bourgeois ideological authoritarianism. Suffice it to show them…

An Immense Unconnected Group of Islands

Fernando Buen Abad We are an immense cluster of unconnected communication initiatives. So much damage has been done by individualism, sectarianism and isolationism… even when working as a team, some think that the others are part of a set that are only there to serve the one who thinks he is the “boss” and it’s…