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Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author, and broadcaster. He is an an associate editor at Coda Story, and a senior fellow at the London School of Economics. His first book, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, was published in 2014; his new one, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, has just been published by Public Affairs. (August 2019)

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Martin Sellner, an Austrian leader of the far-right Identitarian Movement, Vienna, March 29, 2019

The Info War of All Against All

This topsy-turviness, where the old associations between words and images are being ripped apart and reconstituted in new ways, is not reserved to the right. Activists, spin doctors, propagandists, and preachers on all sides apprehend what they see as a unique moment to remake political meanings.

August 23, 2019

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