Spin-a-War

Spin-a-Climategate: a science thriller

As policymakers gather in Copenhagen to discuss ways of combating climate change, skeptics are bragging about exposing a decades-long conspiracy of climatologists and politicians. What went wrong with science?

Spin-a-battle: how Ukraine invented the “Konotop Massacre”

The famous battle of an unknown war. On July 11, Ukraine celebrates its victory in the Battle of Konotop.

Spin–a–war: Spin-an-America

How 18th Century spin affected the image of the American Revolution in Russia.

The War on Terror as a Spin of Imagination. Part 3. Conspiracies.

When an event of the magnitude of 9/11 happens, it is only natural that at least a few conspiracy theories will emerge, or re-emerge in its wake.

Spin-a-war. War on Terror as a spin of the imagination. Part 2: Illusions

Spin-a-war. The War on Terror as a spin of imagination. Part 1. Inventions

WWII-related spin casts shadows on our V-Day

How do you spin a war, 64 years in the past? Piece of cake. You just concentrate on a few conspiracy theories to make the story (or history) interesting, and add something that serves as a delivery vehicle for your spin.

Spin-a-flu: a media panic with economic implications

Swine flu is advancing on us from Mexico. The Mexican government has already pronounced the epidemic as being contained.

Spin-a-war: Spin-a-lord-of-war

One more session in the year-long hearing of the Victor Bout extradition case ended just a few hours ago.

Spin-a-war. Burma/Myanmar

The longest civil war on the planet knew the widest variety of media spin.

A video-game war No. 1: ten years since the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia

Modern wars are fought live on television.

The Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War

How a hundred years ago, the media began to matter.

A small war that mattered – 40 years since the Damansky Island tragedy

Technically, the Damansky conflict was a local two-episode frontier engagement between Chinese and Soviet soldiers on March 2 and March 15, 1969. Statistically, it was, for the lack of a better term, small.

Laos, 1968 – 75: a war that never happened

How the media covered a war that never was.

Spin-a-War: Iran’s rocky road in and out of the Axis of evil

Spin-a-Lord-of-War: the case of Viktor Bout

A group of congressmen addressed the new U.S. administration with a request to make the ‘delayed’ extradition of Russian businessman Viktor Bout from Thailand to the United States a priority in U.S. – Thai relations.

Afghanistan: war on demand

Twenty years ago next Sunday, February 15, the last Soviet soldiers marched out of Afghanistan. The longest ‘hot’ conflict of the Cold war was over, but the spin wasn’t.

The Palestine Spin

Media coverage of the Confrontation of Palestine that supposedly re-opened in the 20th century a millennia-old conflict between the Jews and the Arabs,

U.S. Military Targets: Next Stop – Sudan

The plans of the new U.S. administration to put diplomacy ahead of military solutions in its foreign policy is all over the world media.

Iraq 2003: behind the scenes

The Iraq war of 2003 was one of the most publicized conflicts in human history. The world watched it live on kitchen TV-sets and listened to it on the radio in real time while driving to work.