Travis Noakes
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Jun 9, 2025
propagandainfocus.com
"Missing Conversation: COVID-19 Policies and the Silencing of Healthcare Workers"
what happens when policies that claim to protect our health, our “way of life,” and even the very foundations of our democracy end up destroying all three?
Our work documents not “hesitancy” or “misinformation” – framed today as major threats to humanity (Sell et al., 2021; WHO, 2021; World Health Organization, 2019) – but coerced consent, medical injuries, discrimination, and professional exile
noncompliant workers were portrayed as misinformed, irrational, or morally suspect. Ethical concerns, scientific debates, and questions about evidence were largely absent from the conversation
Jun 5, 2025
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May 29, 2025
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"he pandemic has exacerbated a global clampdown on free expression. In at least 45 of the 65 countries covered by Freedom on the Net, activists, journalists, or ordinary members of the public were arrested or criminally charged for online speech related to COVID-19"
Authorities justified the arrests through a myriad of laws that criminalize expression deemed to cause panic, instigate violence, spread hate, or insult officials, among other perceived harms
By passing new laws and arresting individuals for nonviolent speech, leaders attempted to control narratives about the virus’s spread, the government’s performance, and the negative social and economic implications of lockdowns.
In one of the world’s harshest examples, Zimbabwe’s emergency provisions have put internet users at risk of up to 20 years in prison for spreading false information about the pandemic
Jul 29, 2024
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"propaganda emerging from self-interested and powerful actors equates to a parasite within the human mind that seeks to lead humans away from their better instincts "
authorities around the world have sought to implement quite extraordinary policies
“collateral damage” (a military euphemism for wartime civilian casualties)
A central part of selling these extreme, and ultimately highly destructive, policies has involved the use of propaganda.
May 14, 2025
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"their culture’s understanding that having intellectuals means allowing people to make controversial statements that progress the social conversation. "
their culture’s understanding that having intellectuals means allowing people to make controversial statements that progress the social conversation.
migrant labor, often illegal, is easier to exploit, cheaper, and increases consumption
The use of social welfare as a means of support for migrants rather than as a means to support citizens has placed Renaud Camus, who began his life as a socialist, on the right.
May 5, 2025
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“Be careful who you pretend to be.”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Mother Night.
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