T. J. Coles
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| Member of | Axis of Logic, Organisation for Propaganda Studies, The Grayzone, Working Group on Syria Propaganda and Media |
| Interests | • human rights • intelligence operations • propaganda • capitalism • deep politics • UK/Deep state |
Dr T. J. Coles is an academic, independent journalist and investigative researcher. Co-founder of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research,[1] he has written for commercially-controlled media including The New Statesman[2] and Newsweek[3], as well as alternative and independent publications, including CounterPunch[4] The Gray Zone[5] New Dawn[6] and Nexus.[7]
His political writings have appeared in the peer-reviewed journals, Peace Review[8] and Ethical Space.[9] In 2013, he was short-listed for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for a series of articles about NATO's destruction of Libya.[10]
Contents
Activities
Until October 2022, Coles was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Plymouth's Cognition Institute, where he was studying audio description for blind and visually-impaired people.[11]
He co-founded the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research (PIPR), "a centre for interdisciplinary research groups and grassroots activists dedicated to peace and justice".[12]
Publications
Coles has written books on a variety of subjects, including war, neuroscience, and economics. His books have been endorsed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, John Perkins, Dr. Susan Blackmore, and former CIA officer, John Kiriakou]].[13]
- Britain’s Secret Wars (2016, Clairview Books)
- The Great Brexit Swindle (2016, Clairview Books)
- President Trump, Inc. (2017, Clairview Books)
- Voices for Peace (ed.) (2017, Clairview Books)
- Human Wrongs (2018, Iff Books)
- Fire and Fury (2018, Clairview Books)
- Real Fake News (2018, Red Pill Press)
- Union Jackboot (with Matthew Alford) (2018, Até Books)
- Manufacturing Terrorism (2018, Clairview Books)
- Privatized Planet (2019, New Internationalist)
- Your Brain in Quarantine (2020, Bite-sized Books)
- The War on You (2020, Ursa Major)
- Capitalism and Coronavirus (2020, Ursa Major)
- We'll Tell You What to Think (2021, Ursa Major)
- Where Does Prejudice Come From? (2022, Ursa Major)
- Biofascism (2022, Ursa Major)
Controversy
In October 2022, Coles was listed, along with 93 others, by the US-funded Ukrainian military's Center for Countering Disinformation as an "information terrorist" for his Gray Zone-published work on the Russia-Ukraine war.[14] The same month, a cabal of Plymouth University staff led by Associate Professor Jane Grant]][15] successfully conspired to terminate his position without due process, notice, or right of reply,[16] because of unspecified things Coles had written for Nexus.[17]
In January 2023, an article Coles wrote for New Dawn resulted in the magazine being pulled from the shelves of New Zealand retailers for raising questions about whether Brenton Tarrant had acted alone in the Christchurch mass shooting.[18]
Publications
Coles has written books on a variety of subjects, including war, neuroscience, and economics. His books have been endorsed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, John Perkins, Susan Blackmore, and John Kiriakou.[19]
- Britain’s Secret Wars (2016, Clairview Books)
- The Great Brexit Swindle (2016, Clairview Books)
- President Trump, Inc. (2017, Clairview Books)
- Voices for Peace (ed.) (2017, Clairview Books)
- Human Wrongs (2018, Iff Books)
- Fire and Fury (2018, Clairview Books)
- Real Fake News (2018, Red Pill Press)
- Union Jackboot (with Matthew Alford) (2018, Até Books)
- Manufacturing Terrorism (2018, Clairview Books)
- Privatized Planet (2019, New Internationalist)
- Your Brain in Quarantine (2020, Bite-sized Books)
- The War on You (2020, Ursa Major)
- Capitalism and Coronavirus (2020, Ursa Major)
- We'll Tell You What to Think (2021, Ursa Major)
- Where Does Prejudice Come From? (2022, Ursa Major)
- Biofascism (2022, Ursa Major)
Documents by T. J. Coles
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Chemtrails - Proof and Purpose | article | 1 January 2013 | Chemtrails Geoengineering | An outline of the activities of various agencies of the US UK military in the fields of climate modification by means of high altitude chemical spraying. |
| Document:The Real Reason Theresa May’s Brexit Has Failed | Article | 2 March 2019 | Kenneth Clarke Theresa May UK Independence Party Jeremy Corbyn Brexit Democratic Unionist Party Jacob Rees-Mogg European Research Group Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive Arron Banks MiFID | So, the choice faced by ordinary British people is between a neoliberal EU supported by millionaires like Kenneth Clarke or an ultra-neoliberal Brexit supported by multimillionaires like Jacob Rees-Mogg. Meanwhile, ordinary working-class people pay the price for these elite games, as usual. |
References
- ↑ http://www.pipr.co.uk/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210918011655/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2012/03/argentina-britain-islands-oil
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161213170239/https://www.newsweek.com/great-brexit-swindle-trump-free-trade-vote-530910
- ↑ https://www.counterpunch.org/author/t-j-coles/
- ↑ https://thegrayzone.com/author/tj-coles/
- ↑ https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/author/drcoles
- ↑ https://nexusmagazine.com/?s=coles&v=11aedd0e4327
- ↑ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10402659.2013.785332
- ↑ https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Ethical_Space_Vol_18_Issue_1_2.html?id=uXRzzgEACAAJ&hl=en&output=html_text&redir_esc=y
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190524145725/https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/347458884950163456
- ↑ ttps://vision2022dublin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Vision2022_AbstractBook_Final-1.pdf
- ↑ http://www.pipr.co.uk/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/stores/T.-J.-Coles/author/B01M8PHWX1
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221005082016/https://dpyne.substack.com/p/ukrainian-disinformation-agency-re
- ↑ https://twitter.com/janegrant100
- ↑ https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/17/pentagon-funded-plymouth-university-cancels-anti-war-academic-reflections-on-how-the-us-empire-conquered-higher-education/
- ↑ https://www.bitchute.com/video/oy99HTNE2X8/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230118235138/https://tottnews.com/2023/01/08/censorship-new-dawn-magazine-nz/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/stores/T.-J.-Coles/author/B01M8PHWX1
