Trump’s war loop: Escalate, retreat, repeat | The Listening Post
For decades, much of the United States media adopted Washington’s framing of US conflicts in the Middle East. But the US-Israel war against...
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Israel's Image Crisis: Becoming Too Big to Spin?
As criticism of Israel mounts over its wars on Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, along with the escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank,...
Iran's Infowar: Lego, AI and ever tightening control | The Listening Post
The information front has been central to the Iranian government’s war effort. For an external audience, there is an innovative online strat...
Hormuz: Spin in the Strait | The Listening Post
A fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran holds - but the information war intensifies. At the centre: the Strait of Hormuz, where competin...
War spirals as information control tightens | The Listening Post
The war on Iran has entered a much more damaging phase with more assassinations of the leadership in Tehran, the continued blockade of the S...
“A war in search of a strategy” - Trump-Netanyahu's war with Iran | The Listening Post
One week into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, and the messaging coming from the White House is consistently chaotic and contradi...
Trump, Iran and geopolitical mind games | The Listening Post
As Washington escalates threats of military action against Iran, negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme continue behind the scenes. Bu...
The AI alarm cycle: Lots of talk, little action | The Listening Post
A series of warnings from artificial intelligence (AI) industry insiders shows how the debate around AI drives extreme news cycles, swinging...
The Epstein files cover-up: Botched or calculated? | The Listening Post
The latest tranche of the Epstein files contains more than three million documents - the largest release of its kind. In what appears to be...
The anatomy of the Epstein network | The Listening Post
The Epstein files dump has led to days of intense media coverage, revealing how powerful elites around the world engaged in either illegal o...
Has the Trump administration overplayed its spin? | The Listening Post
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the fatal shooting of a protester by border control agents triggered mass demonstrations and presented the Trump...
Trump’s obsession with Greenland | The Listening Post
Donald Trump’s latest attempt to seize Greenland shows that the president is willing to use US force to determine international borders, eve...
Iran: The protests, the blackout and the narrative war
This past week, Iranian protesters were labelled “terrorists” and “saboteurs” by the state. That rhetoric was accompanied by an internet bla...
The spin and misinformation around Bondi was inevitable | The Listening Post
The horrific Bondi Beach attack in Australia was pulled into Israel’s global information war this past week. As blame was directed towards p...
Why the huge bidding war over Warner Bros? | The Listening Post
For more than a century, Warner Bros has been one of Hollywood’s biggest players, a legacy studio that helped define the Golden Age of cinem...
Sorry, not sorry: Netanyahu demands a pardon | The Listening Post
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is asking for a pardon over a range of corruption charges laid against him after repeatedly tellin...
Why isn’t US media busting the ‘narco-state’ myth? | The Listening Post
The United States’ deadly “counter-narcotics mission” off Venezuela’s coast hinges on an unproven drug-smuggling narrative - a familiar pret...
Israel is rampaging through the West Bank - why isn't there more coverage? | The Listening Post
In the West Bank, record levels of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians are unfolding with little mainstream coverage. The few jour...
Upheaval at the BBC: Is it a crisis or a coup? | The Listening Post
The BBC is in turmoil. A leaked dossier exposing a misedited speech of United States President Donald Trump and other editorial concerns has...
Torture, Leak, Outrage: Israel's Sde Teiman Affair | The Listening Post
The Israeli government is facing what it calls a “public relations disaster” after a video surfaced showing soldiers torturing and sexually...