From New Dawn 203 (Mar-Apr 2024) “If I were to be asked why I support the Palestinian revolution,”1 remarked French novelist Jean Genet in a piece for the autumn 1973 issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies, “I would recall […]
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‘All I Know is What is on the Internet’: The Emergence of the Post-Truth Age
From New Dawn 199 (Jul-Aug 2023) It must be said that postmodern philosophy has not received the best PR. As soon as people hear the names Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida and Debord, they predictably roll their eyes, expecting some pretentious spiel […]
The Men Who Run the World: Inside the Global Power Elite’s Quest for Domination
From New Dawn 196 (Jan-Feb 2023) On the surface, the men who rule the world are central and investment bankers: those who print money and create money from thin air in the form of loans. I say “men” because almost […]
Lies of Our Times: Fake News & the Weaponisation of (Dis)Information
From New Dawn 173 (Mar-Apr 2019) According to an aphorism attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and later popularised by Mark Twain, there were three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics. To this might be added a fourth category: the […]
The Crimes of Big Pharma: Why Are We Still Turning a Blind Eye?
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 17 No 2 (Apr 2023) More than a decade ago, the US drug giant Pfizer was described as a “habitual offender” by the journal, Healthcare Policy. Between 2002 and 2009, the company had forked […]