Steve Rosenberg, State Propagandist-in-Chief for the BBC in Russia, posted this… Here’s Steve. Note he has three phones. Oh sorry, four. Uber-connected professional. Steve’s piece is a shining example of propaganda narrative at work, wherein Steve interviews local Russian residents of Belgorod and then blatantly inserts words they never spoke; Steve’s words. Steve hears the…
Author: medusian
Silent BBC Edit
On 3rd December, Matt Murphy (Senior Journalist – BBCNews and BBCWorld) wrote a piece that appeared on the BBC website regarding a ‘new’ building in Mariupol. Here’s the original piece (you can find it on the Internet Archive). The ‘Russian Army Base’ Matt is referring to is actually a 60-bed civilian hospital completed by the…
A Glaring Media Blindspot
On Monday 5th December, Ukraine launched a pair of adapted Soviet-era Tu-141 Strizh Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) at two airbases within Russia. One struck Dyagilevo Air Force Base in Ryazan Oblast, a training center for Russia’s strategic bomber force. Another struck Engels Air Force Base (Engels-2), a strategic nuclear bomber military airbase in Russia located…
Revisiting Military Predictions
In this post from March 4th 2022, I made a number of predictions regarding the military situation in Ukraine and how it might develop over the course of the conflict. Given recent (credible) reports (from a variety of sources) that estimate Ukrainian losses of 100,000 killed and 400,000 wounded, I thought I would revisit and…
Schama and Murray
Oh Simon. Oh Douglas. It’s been a week of disappointment. Douglas Murray penned a fluff piece on behalf of warmongers and death-dealers. Wish I hadn’t read that. And Simon Schama releases the ‘History of Now‘ – a new BBC series, which covertly and overtly supports the very same warmongers and death-dealers while purporting to show…
Ukraine ~ Discerning a Measure of Truth
What is propaganda? What is mis-information (or disinformation)? What is a narrative? What is perspective? What is context? What is a fact? What is truth? There are also some hints as to whether a particular narrative (for example) is most likely propaganda; where it contains… I believe that factual truth is the most effective antidote…
Ukraine ~ October 2022
Multiple missile strikes have hit multiple targets across Ukraine, this morning. It’s horrific. I hope the death toll and the suffering is minimal; if I could choose… minimal would equate to zero. I’ve never lived in an active warzone but I have an active and empathic imagination and have seen sufficient images and videos of…
Ukraine ~ March 2022
Now, yet more people are dying in Ukraine. A solution that should have been found in 2015 must now be found and implemented as soon as possible to bring this death to an end. It is imperative. It has been imperative for eight years. So where can such solutions be found? We can engage in…
Critical [X] Theory
FLUFFYPINK, COMPASSIONATE AND CARING? THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL. There are too many branches of this neo-Marxist, post-modernist ideology to cover them all, let alone a single one in any detail. But as they share the format ‘critical [X] theory/justice’ where the [X] can be ‘feminist,’ ‘race,’ ‘queer,’ ‘gender,’ (etc) or the overarching catch-all…
What Does Anti-Fascism Mean?
Oh that’s easy. Anti whatever the word ‘fascist’ means, you eedjut. Thanks. OK, so what does ‘fascist’ mean? It’s at this point most ‘anti-fascists’ become patronisingly serene and irritated (a neat trick)… and often disinterested in answering beyond ‘swastikas’ and ‘Hitler’ and ‘Trump!!!’ I don’t blame them their fuzziness. There are a number of definitions….