My Publications

For full details of my exchanges with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, see the bottom of this page.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Democracy Manipulators, Znet, April 26, 2008.

Media Watchdogs or Imperial Flak Machines: Press Freedom in the Service of Polyarchy, The Fanonite, April 23, 2008.

Mass Media and Social Movements, Center for Research on Globalization, April 22, 2008.

Zimbabwe and the Power of Propaganda: Ousting a President via Civil Society, Center for Research on Globalization, April 16, 2008. (A-List response from Professor Patrick Bond.)

Media Manipulation and Human Rights: From Pinochet to Human Rights in China, Center for Research on Globalization, March 29, 2008.

Media Manipulation and the United Nations: UNESCO Severs Ties to Democracy Manipulators?, Center for Research on Globalization, March 24, 2008.

Elite Manipulation of Civil Society, Submitted.

Investigating the Investigators: A Critical Look at Pro Publica, (Part 2 & 3), Spinwatch, February 29, 2008.

Elite ‘Democratic’ Planning at the Council on Foreign Relations, (Part 2), Znet, February 26, 2008.

Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11, Media Culture Society, Feburary 2008. (If you would like the pdf of this article please just drop me an email)

People Power or Political Puppetry?, The Fanonite, January 16, 2008. (Open Letter to Cynthia Boaz)

Peace Activists, Criticism, and Nonviolent Imperialism, MR Zine, January 8, 2008.

Global Democracy Manipulators: Polyarchy and the UN Democracy Fund, (Part 2, 3 & 4), Znet, December 24, 2007.

Reporters Without Democracy: Media Watchdog as Democracy Manipulator, (Part 2, 3 & 4), Znet, December 15, 2007.

Manufacturing Consent for World War III, Center for Research on Globalization, November 22, 2007.

Promoting Humanitarian Imperialism in Cuba and Beyond, Znet, October 15, 2007.

Global Greens and the Mass Media: Building for a Participatory Future?, Griffith Journal of the Environment, September 24, 2007. (Reader Friendly Version Published on Znet as Corporate Media Greens)

Washington Promotes ‘Independent’ Media in Venezuela, Upside Down World, September 18, 2007. (Updated Version Published on Znet)

Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions?, (Part 2), Znet, September 9, 2007.

‘Democratic Imperialism’: Tibet, China, and the National Endowment for Democracy, Center for Research on Globalization, August 13, 2007.

Hijacking Human Rights: A Critical Examination of Human Rights Watch’s Americas Branch and their Links to the ‘Democracy’ Establishment, Znet, August 3, 2007.

Operation ‘Peace’ and the Iraq Study Group, Znet, August 3, 2007.

A Force More Powerful: Promoting ‘Democracy’ through Civil Disobedience, State of Nature, February 25, 2007.

Conform or Reform? Social Movements and the Mass Media, Fifth-Estate-Online - International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism, February 2007.

Catalyst for Iranian Resistance: US ‘Democracy Promoters’ and Regime Change in Iran, Znet, December 18, 2006.

Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies (Taking the risk out of civil society - part 4 of 4), Znet, November 3, 2006.

Regulating Revolutions in Eastern Europe (Taking the risk out of civil society - part 3 of 4), Znet, November 1, 2006.

Promoting Polyarchy in Serbia (Taking the risk out of civil society - part 2 of 4), Znet, October 29, 2006.

Corporate Fronts, Astroturf Groups and Co-opted Social Movements (Taking the risk out of civil society - part 1 of 4), Znet, September 17, 2006.

The BBC and Medialens: A Match Made in Heaven?, Fifth Estate Online – Comment, May 2006.

Fidel Ramos and the Australian Centre for Democratic Institutions, Znet, April 16, 2006.

Manufacturing Policies: The Media’s Role in the Policy Making Process, Refereed paper presented to the Journalism Education Conference, Griffith University, 29 November – 2 December 2005.

Online Privacy? Surveillance of Social Movements on the Internet, The Change Agency, November 2005.

SBS and ABC Reporting on Australia’s Largest Union Meeting Ever!, New Community Quarterly, 3 (4), Summer 2005.

Forthcoming Journal Articles (In Press)

(200 Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11?, Media Culture Society, 30 (1), pp. 109-130.

(In Press) The Liberal Foundations of Media Reform? Creating Sustainable Funding Opportunities for Radical Media Reform, Global Media.

(In Press) The National Endowment for Democracy and the Promotion of ‘Democratic’ Media Systems Worldwide, Communication for Development and Social Change: A Global Journal.

(In Press) The Liberal Foundations of Environmentalism: Revisiting the Rockefeller-Ford Connection,’ Capitalism Nature Socialism.

Social Change and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)

King, Interview with Eva Golinger: US continues destabilisation push in Venezuela, Green Left Weekly, June 28, 2007.

Duvall, Letters to the Editor: Gollinger Interview, Green Left Weekly, July 22, 2007.

Barker, Promoting ‘Democracy’ Through Civil Disobedience, Green Left Weekly, August 25, 2007.

Zunes, Inaccurate and unfair attacks on the ICNC, Green Left Weekly, August 31, 2007.

Barker, An Accurate and Fair Critique of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (First Response to Stephen Zunes), Green Left Weekly, September 22, 2007.

Zunes, Additional inaccurate and unfair attacks against the ICNC, Green Left Weekly, October 6, 2007.

Barker, ‘False accusations and major leaps of logic’?, Green Left Weekly, December 10, 2007.

Barker, Peace Activists, Criticism, and Nonviolent Imperialism, MR Zine, January 8, 2008.

Zunes, Spurious Attacks against Supporters of Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression, MR Zine, January, 2008.

Foster, Reply to Stephen Zunes on Imperialism and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, MR Zine, January 17, 2008. Also see the 18 comments posted at the bottom of this article by assorted commentators which include theorists of nonviolence like Lester Kurtz and Randy Schutt.

Zunes, Nonviolent Action and Pro-Democracy Struggles, Znet, February 17, 2008.

Gowans, Stephen Zunes and the Struggle for Overseas Profits, What’s Left, February 18, 2008.

Zunes, A Reply to Stephen Gowans’ False Allegations against Stephen Zunes, Znet, February 25, 2008.

Gowans, Zunes’ Compromising with Capitalism’s Sad Reality, What’s Left, February 25, 2008.

Barker, Nonviolent Imperialism: Zunes on Gowans, The Fanonite, March 8, 2008. (Major Revision)

Zunes, Opposing Imperialism, Green Left Weekly, March 1, 2008.

Barker, Rethinking ‘Opposing Imperialism’, Green Left Weekly, March 9, 2008.

Gowans, 10 Rules for Understanding Civil Society Imperialism, What’s Left, March 16, 2008.

Zunes, Comment Left on The Fanonite Blog, March 17, 2008.

Zunes, Comment Left on What’s Left Blog, What’s Left, March 17, 2008.

Related Articles

Barker, A Force More Powerful: Promoting ‘Democracy’ through Civil Disobedience, State of Nature, February 25, 2007.

Barker, People Power or Political Puppetry?, The Fanonite, January 16, 2008. (Open Letter to Cynthia Boaz)

Boaz, Reply to Barker’s Open Letter, The Fanonite, April 6, 2008.