The Progressive Commentary Hour - 04.11.23

Dr Tim Coles is a former researcher at the Cognition Institute at Plymouth University in the UK where he received his PhD and researched blindness and visual impairment until he was cancelled by the university for his political views and writing. Tim writes about geopolitics, British politics, peace and war, the Covid pandemic and a variety of cultural issues.  His articles have been published in the Grayzone,the New Statesmen, Truthout, Counterpunch and other other sources.  Dr. Coles has authored Tim has written over 15 books including "Voices for Peace" (with Noam Chomsky), "Bioterrorism: The Tech-Pharma Complex", and most recently "Militarizing Cancel Culture: How Censorship and Deplatforming Became a Weapon of the US Empire" -- which takes on the US government's strategies and operations to wage war against journalists and free speech, and how popular cancel culture has been exploited to achieve its goals of conformity and control.