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The Final Englishman In Russia
Muscovites view East-West fissures with a mixture of bafflement and resolve. For me, going there felt like walking off the Edge of the World
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Trump Drags Us Back to an Imperial Time Long Forgot - About 2011
I woke on Sunday morning to discover that President Trump had launched airstrikes on Caracas and kidnapped Venezuelan President Maduru.
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Deconstructing Propaganda: From Akkadian Kings to the Digital Age
An interview with Dr. Matthew Alford by Dr. Uliana Z. Artamonova
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Stop Worrying about the War — Putin Has Been Fighting on Our Side This Whole Time
The West's Secret Weapon
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Fighting the Empire, Flying to Moscow, & Losing to YouTube: My 2025 Roundup (Newsletter #6)
A year of viral articles, vanished monetisation, propaganda analysis, & success in Tinseltown
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No Thug Butchered More than London’s Mole At The Top of the IRA
And exactky why does Stakeknife‘s role in The Troubles remind me of the android from Ridley-Scott’s Alien?
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I Confronted Jeremy Corbyn on Cheesy Chips — He’s Still Our Best Politician
I adore the former Labour leader but this game was cooked a long time ago
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The Smoke-Filled Room... & The News We’ll Never See
New docs from The Grayzone reveal how a shadowy committee uses D-Notices to control what journalists can report, from intel failures to the death of…
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When Even The Conversation Won’t Converse: How Media Filters Out Basic Reality
When I filed my first piece for The Guardian, I described the Afghan Mujahideen as ‘terrorists’ but when it was printed, the paper had renamed them…
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"Hollywood’s Role in Laying the Groundwork for the Global War on Terror" (From the Archives - 2025)
Matthew Alford Interviewed by Ben Arthur Thomason in 2023 for a textbook published by Taylor & Francis
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From the Archives (2013) 🦅
The Tyranny of Official Editors Hollywood, Power, and the System That Rewrites Reality
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From the Archives (2013): Propaganda and the Entertainment Industry
Back in 2013 I spoke with Rebecca Fisher about Hollywood’s role as Washington’s favourite PR arm.
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Scourge of the Spin Machine
Black-humoured author and academic delivering sharp, irreverent political analysis for people allergic to bullshit.
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