The US government doesn’t simply want Americans to support the war it launched with Israel on Iran; it wants to pump people up.

The poem is a World War One propaganda piece that uses sporting metaphors to encourage young men to enlist. It presents war as a thrilling and noble challenge, downplaying its dangers and appealing to ...

After more than 100 years, an American medical museum has returned the partial human remains of 12 Canadian soldiers from the First World War. The Department of National Defence would not say what ...

In search of clicks, opportunistic social media users not affiliated with state actors have also contributed heavily to the ...

Sue Radford from 22 Kids and Counting was left emotional after discovering her great-grandfather was killed in World War One ...

In an intriguing examination of Donald Trump's contradictory remarks regarding the onset and avoidance of warfare, the ...

State media and online propagandists are striking a confident posture, despite heavy losses. Some of the content was ...

An intercepted German telegram shocked Americans on March 1, 1917—sparking outrage, ending neutrality, and pulling the U.S.

Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, ...

This video explores the psychological and social mechanisms that allow brutality to become normalized during war. Using the example of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it examines how dehumanization, ...

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