War correspondents, journalists and editors, who are conscious of the way news is manufactured by people operating the machinery of Government spin, discuss here an aspect of war making that is not discussed openly in the main media. Namely, the aspect of misinformation, false reporting and State propaganda. Wars are created by a group of […]
Both believers & unbelievers think that war gives meaning to their lives
I am well aware of some of the ways in which social engineering is used by the media to condition people to believe in a shared identity, a collectivized humanity under one flag, to die for the myth of nationalism. The BBC war narrative is good at achieving these nationalistic goals. Every week they slip […]
War is not divine; it is humanism playing God
We accuse other cultures of barbaric behaviour when they chop off heads and darkly croon in our beer about the terrible inhumanity of man. Yet it was only two generations ago that English people subordinated themselves to a killing machine that destroyed tens of thousands of housewives and children of mixed ethnicity in Germany.