Scourge of the Spin Machine
Scourge of the Spin Machine, Ben ThomasonBlack-humoured author delivering political analysis for those of you watching Western foreign policy with your head in your hands.
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Visiting Iraq Fixed the Picture I’d Had in My Head for Thirty Years
“Mind out for the bombs! They always bomb the Shia.”
That was my friend David’s advice as I set off last week on a very last-minute trip to Iraq. He actually screeched his bike to a halt to deliver the warning.
My neighbour Sally had some...
Gaza's Huge Death Toll is Somehow Smaller Than Many Predicted. How Did I Get It Wrong?
At the height of the Israeli assault on Gaza, I suggested that we might be witnessing a demographic catastrophe comparable in scale to the genocide in Cambodia, where roughly a fifth of the population died.
That comparison now looks less s...
Prediction After Prediction Dies in Donbas
War has always drawn in confident prophets. But if you wanted to design the worst possible system for discussing war, you would build one that rewards confidence over caution and attention over accuracy. In many respects, this is today’s me...
The Smartest Case for British Nukes... Still Doesn’t Work
Every so often I read an article on defence that makes me think: this is about as sophisticated as these guys get.
David Blair’s latest Telegraph piece advising that an Andy Burnham government restore Britain’s independent air-launched nu...
Forget Norway. Is the Pentagon’s Carbon Footprint Actually Britain-Sized?
For years, the standard claim has been that the Pentagon emits 55 million metric tonnes of CO2 annually - this is sometimes flagged as being as much carbon as produced by the whole of Norway.
That sounds like a startling figure. Norway is...
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Propaganda analysis for people sick of managed reality
Visiting assistant professor of History at University of South Florida. Researcher of US and Western media imperialism and democracy promotion. Published in academic journals on Western propaganda warfare in Syria
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