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Fear in the White House and Trump’s Foreign Policy
The sensation this week is Bob Woodward's book on the Trump White House titled, "Fear: Trump in the White House." It shows a President...
Choking internet in Kashmir: A scourge
The world of today is altogether in contradiction to the times of the previous ages. Technology has taken the global order by a major...
“Russian Propaganda”: On Social Networks, in Eastern Europe, and Soon Everywhere
“Russia is engaged in an active, worldwide propaganda campaign,” reads the fairly straightforward beginning of RAND Corporation’s report on Russia’s influence on East European...
How Disinformation Works: The Implosion of American Civil Society
By now, most of the world has read about the attempt by Russian hackers/intelligence agents to sow discord across American society leading up to...
Saudi-UK media tie-up: Targeting the non-Arabic-speaking Middle East
Long satisfied to attempt to dominate pan-Arab media and battle it out with Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera television network, Saudi Arabia has now set...
The ‘Reverse Nixon’ and New Nero: Where to Focus After the Trump-Putin Summit
It would be too easy to simply jump on all of the stereotypical bandwagoning going on across most of the world’s media (especially the...
Russia: Improving public diplomacy in Africa
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), collaborating with Ministry of Communications, Diplomatic Academy and the Institute for African Studies, plans to launch a short...
Is Indian Democracy Dying?
The prominent journalist and editor, Shujaat Bukhari was leaving work when he and his two bodyguards were shot and killed. Suffice to say newspapers...
Putin and Kim vs. American Media: Controlling Reality rather than the Narrative
An area of particular fascination for me has been what can be loosely called ‘controlling the narrative.’ In almost every sphere of life it...
Israeli Atrocities against Palestinians and International Response
The world’s media is castigating Israeli soldiers who killed unarmed Palestinians on April 20, 2018 in the wake of Great March of Return in...