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Introduction to Propaganda In Focus
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces Propaganda In Focus and outlines the importance of propaganda study in modern discourse.
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Assessing the Social Value of Social Media: A Dialogue with Dr. Daniel Broudy
Bio: Daniel Broudy is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Okinawa Christian University. His interdisciplinary research involves analysis of the major narratives, organizations, institutions, methods, and actors deployed by power centers to coerce and agitate emotions, shape perceptions, and engineer consent to the policies, plans and procedures that camouflage various forms of modern warfare. He is co-editor of “The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness” ([2018](https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/e/10.16997/book27/)) and co-author of “Okinawa Under Occupation: McDonaldization and Resistance to Neoliberal Propaganda” ([2017](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-5598-0)). He is co-editor of Propaganda in Focus.
Abstract: If traditional media make use of the mainstream channels of communication to broadcast the only acceptable perspectives and forms of knowledge, to what extent can social media serve the same purposes in limiting awareness, bounding public debate, shaping opinion, and influencing behavior? Do social media serve benevolent ends in creating a cohesive and informed society or, instead, reproduce the status quo whereby the owners of the world deploy algorithms and other forms of censorship to manage and guide populations. This interview explores these and related questions to present a fuller picture of the purpose of social media. Professor Daniel Broudy discusses his research and efforts to build in students a habit of critical self-reflection on their consumption of media.
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Grasping the Larger Story of Medical Tyranny: A Dialogue with Dr. David Hughes
Dr. David Hughes offers a comprehensive view of the Coronavirus narrative as presented in the mainstream corporate media and how the injectable mRNA platforms, posing as normal vaccines, figure into present efforts being made around the world to collapse economies and societies in the interest of Building Back Better toward a new social and economic order ruled by technocrats. The global march to a medicalized technocratic tyranny has helped him fill in key pieces of the puzzling reasons why a controlled demolition of existing social, economic and political structures is necessary for the emerging “single global order,” as recently described by Emmanuel Macron at APEC.
Bio: With doctorates in German Studies and International Relations, David A. Hughes lectures in areas including security studies, international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, globalization, and US exceptionalism. His research focuses on psychological warfare, “9/11,” “COVID-19,” the deep state, intelligence crime, technocracy, resurgent totalitarianism, and the class relations behind psychological operations. His most recent books include “‘Covid-19,’ Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy” (Palgrave, 4/2024) and “Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State” (Skyhorse, 5/2024). Selections of his work can be found on [Academia.edu](http://academia.edu/). David is an Associate Researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global “War on Terror.”
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A Dialogues with Dr. Joan Pedro-Carañana
Bio: Joan Pedro-Carañana is in the Department of Journalism and New Media of the Complutense University of Madrid. He has a European doctorate in Communication, Social Change and Development. His research interests lie in understanding the roles and intersections of communication, education, and culture both in the (re)production of hegemony and in emancipatory social change. He is co-editor of*The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness,Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse: An International Dialogue y Political Economy of Media and Communication. Methodological Approaches*. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Latin Union of Political Economy of Communication, Information and Culture - Spain (https://ulepicc.es/).
Abstract: If goodwill and understanding across ethnicities and cultures can expand through honest communication and free association, then peace journalism aims to nurture communication at the community level and reclaim control over the corporate forms of storytelling that dominate the media landscapetoday. This interview explores the purposes and efforts behind practices of peace journalism today. Professor Joan Pedro-Carañana discusses his work with the*Latin Union of Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culture*(ULEPICC)in Spain and addresses questions about the possibilities for peace and understanding in a world fractured by rank inequality, suspicion, contempt, and discord.
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Pt. 10, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: Roundtable Discussion/Debate
21st Century Wire’s Patrick Henningsen closes the symposium with a final panel discussion with the day’s presenters.
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Pt. 8, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: How ‘Women’s Rights’ were Instrumentalised to Promote the Post-9/11 War in Afghanistan, presented by Dr. Lucy Morgan Edwards
Dr Lucy Morgan Edwards worked with women on Community and Public health projects in Kandahar & Herat during the Taliban regime. Following 9/11 she remained in Afghanistan undertaking a variety of roles including as an election monitor, freelance journalist and Political Advisor to the EU Ambassador and to the EU Chief Election Observer of the 2005 Parliamentary elections. Her book, ‘The Afghan Solution; the inside story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and how western hubris lost Afghanistan’ was published in 2011. Her Doctoral thesis research interest was ‘Western support to warlords in Afghanistan from 2001-2014 and its effect on Political Legitimacy’.
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Pt. 6, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: Munitions, Microbes and Messaging in the 9/11 & Covid-19 Terror Wars, presented by Dr. Daniel Broudy
Dr. Daniel Broudy discusses the government and media messaging similarities employed during both the “War on Terror” era and the subsequent Covid-19 era. Dr. Broudy works in Japan and writes about intercultural interpretations of texts, symbols, sounds, and images. He integrates his post-graduate studies in psycholinguistics to help students see beyond the façades erected in mainstream media to deceive the public and manipulate emotions to obscure the empirical world.
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Pt. 5, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: Understanding the ‘War on Terror’ as a Propaganda Event: The Formative Years 2001-2003, presented by Dr. Piers Robinson
Dr. Piers Robinson discusses how propaganda was used to help launch the ‘War on Terror’ following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Pt. 4, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: State Crimes Against Democracy and Conspiracy Theories, presented by Dr. Richard Ellefritz
Dr. Richard Ellefritz discusses state crimes against democracy as well as the origins and pejorative use of the term ‘Conspiracy Theory’. Dr. Ellefritz is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of the Bahamas. During his doctoral program, he applied his area of concentration in social movements to the 9/11 Truth movement. His ongoing research on movement-countermovement dynamics compares his interviews and ethnographic research with the 9/11 Truth movement to its countermovement antagonists. His area of research specifically focuses on the role of anti-conspiracy discourse in stigmatizing and silencing speech that raises troubling questions about historically significant events.
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Pt. 2, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: 9/11 Legal Action in the UK, presented by Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell lost his brother Geoff on 9/11. Geoff was one of 67 British victims. Over the years Matt has been campaigning for justice for his brother, putting pressure on the authorities in the US and the UK. In August of 2020 he started a legal challenge with the Attorney General in the UK to reopen his brother’s inquest.
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Pt. 1, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: Introduction: Patrick Henningsen and Dr. Piers Robinson
Opening comments by Patrick Henningsen of UK Column and Dr. Piers Robinson, co-founder of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 ‘Global War on Terror’.
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Pt. 3, Webinar: Propaganda and the ‘9/11 Global War on Terror’: Questions Not Asked: 9/11 and The Academy, presented by Dr. David Hughes
David A. Hughes discusses the problems with broaching 9/11 evidence in the Academy which conflicts with the official government narrative. David received his M.A. from Christ Church, Oxford, his M.St. from Worcester College, Oxford, and holds doctorates in German Studies and International Relations from Duke University and Oxford Brookes University, respectively. Since 2013, he has taught International Relations at the University of East Anglia, Royal Holloway (University of London), Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Lincoln.
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Pt. 7, Symposium: Silencing the Academics: Panel Discussion
The discussion following the symposium presentations included debate over how academia might be reformed and emphasised the need for scholars to develop innovative and more fully independent epistemic spaces in which genuinely critical research can be undertaken.
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Pt. 6, Symposium: Silencing the Academics: ‘Mainstream academic Constraints on African-American studies’
In this talk, Professor Jared Ball discusses the context in which the field of Black-Africana studies is situated within the Western academy and the challenges and various pressures exerted upon academics at traditionally black colleges in the United States. How is academic discourse at present affected by strange paradoxes? He presents a perspective that is hardly broached about a field of study that had emerged as an officially unsanctioned intellectual bloc of the black liberation struggle which has since become elemental to the sanctioned effort by the state to suppress collective memory of that struggle. The talk deconstructs keywords such as “colonisation”, “insurgency”, “empire”, and “citizen” to bring clarity to W.E.B. DuBois' concept of the “propaganda of history”. Jared can be found@imixwhatilikeon most social media, and his decades ofemancipatory journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found atimixwhatilike.org.
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Pt. 5, Symposium: Silencing the Academics: ‘Smear Campaigns and Researching the War in Syria’
In 2017 Dr. Piers Robinson established the Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda which was quickly subjected to mainstream/corporate media attacks. In this presentation, Piers describes these character assassination/smear attacks as well as setting out the motivations for them. The controversy the working group had stumbled upon was that of a strategic deception, perpetrated by the US, UK and French governments, regarding chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the corruption and manipulation of the Fact Finding Missions (FFMs) co-ordinated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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Pt. 4, Symposium: Silencing the Academics: 'Writing Truth to Power and the Battle to Publish'
Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett develops a discussion of the larger historical context in which states have intervened in the policing of public speech and have attempted to control only the 'acceptable' ideas, the 'official' points of view, and the (re)production of knowledge.
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Pt. 3, Symposium: Silencing the Academics: 'Battling the Israel Lobby'
Dr. David Miller’s presentation sets out the details of his experience at the University of Bristol, the concerted campaign to smear him, his firing, and then the subsequent and successful industrial tribunal which found that Bristol University guilty of unfair dismissal. David’s vindication was also a land mark ruling protecting the right to criticise Zionism.
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Pt. 2, Symposium: Silencing the Academics: Introduction w/ Professor Daniel Broudy
Professor Daniel Broudy references the earlier work of Herbert Schiller and his effort to explain how centres of power and authority reproduce the status quo by controlling the names and definitions of keywords and concepts through access to the “informational infrastructure”.
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Pt. 1, Symposium: Silencing the Academics: Opening Remarks
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces the symposium presenters and outlines the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and Propaganda In Focus.
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Introduction to Propaganda In Focus
Dr. Piers Robinson introduces Propaganda In Focus and outlines the importance of propaganda study in modern discourse.
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