NATO’s Echo Chamber: How Denmark’s Broadcasting, DR, Is a Mouthpiece for Alliance Narratives

By on    Denmark, Jan Oberg, MEDIA, Media and conflict, Military & militarism (MIMAC), NATO, Uncategorized  

NATO’s Echo Chamber: How Denmark’s Broadcasting, DR, Is a Mouthpiece for Alliance Narratives

How Denmark’s public broadcaster DR drifted into NATO’s narrative machinery — from role conflicts to Russophobia and systematic exclusion of critical voices Jan Oberg TFF director This Danish text criticises a recent Danish Broadcasting, DR, news article responding to the Russian ambassador’s objections to DR’s documentary Krigsplan Europa. The article presented DR journalist Niels Fastrup as a neutral reporter […]

The mystery of the Russian planes that never were

By on    Cold War - Old and New, MEDIA, Media and conflict, Russia international relations  

The mystery of the Russian planes that never were

Fearology and medialised threat perception management that serves militarism   By Paul Rogers February 22, 2018 Is Russia a military threat to the west? A larger past and closer detail offer fresh light. Most analysts blame Vladimir Putin’s aggressive political stance for the renewed hostility between Russia and the western states of the North Atlantic […]

Why Fear and Self-Hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity

By on    Conflict - violence and war, Nonviolence, PEACE, Psychology - war and peace  

Why Fear and Self-Hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity

By Robert J. Burrowes 24 Jan 2018 • As our world spirals deeper into an abyss from which it is becoming increasingly difficult to extricate ourselves, some very prominent activists have lamented the lack of human solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya. See ‘The Rohingya tragedy shows human solidarity is […]

Shedding Diplomacy – And Fear as a Tool to Gain Power

By on    EUROPE, Politics, Psychology - war and peace  

  By Roberto Savio •This op-ed by Roberto Savio, IPS founder and President Emeritus is adapted from a statement he made as a panelist on Migration and Human Solidarity, A Challenge and an Opportunity for Europe and the MENA region held on 14 December at the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue. […]