Spiked (magazine)

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Spiked (also known as spiked or sp! Ked ) is a British online magazine dealing with political and cultural topics.

Spiked also encompasses a network of publicists who often have a left or Marxist background and have since moved closer to libertarian viewpoints.

The partner magazine in Germany is Novo magazine .

Positions

The magazine covers topics such as risk and freedom, state control, science and technology. It opposes multiculturalism , ecologism and what it sees as a foreign policy “therapy culture” - military “humanitarian interventions” and the corresponding policies, especially by the Blair government.

The objective is:

“… An independent online phenomenon dedicated to raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism in all their ancient and modern forms. spiked is endorsed by free-thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, and hated by the narrow-minded such as Torquemada and Stalin. Or it would be, if they were lucky enough to be around to read it. "

Origin from "Living Marxism", trial because of reporting on Yugoslavia

The magazine was founded in 2000 after the bankruptcy of its predecessor, the print magazine LM magazine . LM was unsuccessful in a defamation suit brought by Independent Television News (ITN). The lawsuit dealt with an LM article by Thomas Deichmann with the title “ The Picture that Fooled the World ” (German: “The picture that fooled the world”).

Deichmann had described parts of the ITN reporting on the Bosnian-Serbian camp Trnopolje from summer 1992 as misleading. According to his research, which he carried out on behalf of the defense of Duško Tadić - a war criminal convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague - Trnopolje was a refugee and transit camp. The ITN recordings of Bosnian Muslims behind barbed wire suggested a concentration camp, which Deichmann believes was not true. Deichmann claimed that the British journalists deliberately deceived and manipulated the public. The photos of the prisoners were taken from a small area that was used as a construction yard before the war. Only this area was fenced in with barbed wire.

The defamation lawsuit sparked a heated debate. The trial did not focus on the photos and the ITN recordings, but rather on the question of whether the journalists from ITN would have deliberately manipulated the public. LM was unable to produce evidence of targeted manipulation and was sentenced to pain and suffering and court costs. These fines totaled about a million pounds. The magazine and its editors were thus economically ruined.

This was commented on in the left-hand magazine CounterPunch

“… ITN put LM out of business by winning a libel suit against the magazine. But due to the quaint nature of British libel law, the decisive issue in court was NOT the truth about the wire fence. Rather, it was whether or not the ITN reporters had 'deliberately' sought to deceive the public. The issue become one of intentions and emotions. The judge, in his summing up, acknowledged that the ITN team reporters were mistaken as to who was enclosed by the old barbed-wire fence, adding, 'but does it matter?' The jury decided it did not. "

- Alexander Cockburn

Mick Hume and others are still trying to revise the procedure and the British libel law, which they consider antiquated, unfair and the suppression of freedom of the press.

Spiked , Ecologism, and the Global Warming Controversy

Spiked has long dealt with the ecologism debate and the global warming controversy .

The author Josie Appleton wanted to deconstruct the climate debate as an expression of an elite failure and a fearful zeitgeist.

According to Joe Kaplinsky and James Woudhuysen, the abstracts of the sober IPCC reports have fallen victim to political instrumentalization ( spin doctoring ), the result being a "wives' tale of fate, damnation and human failure".

Spiked author James Heartfield claims in a book publication Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance that anyone criticizing ecologicalism is accused of being paid for by oil companies and multinationals. The alleged confrontation between innocent greens and cunning capitalists is pretended that the deficiency ideology of ecologism is being instrumentalized much more to encourage small people to be modest in a time of great corporate profits.

George Monbiot accuses the “Spiked Network” of advancing industrial companies' agendas, for example in the field of oil or genetic engineering , as a preliminary organization . He has also expressed his hope of wiping out Spiked's economic base with publications against Spiked.

Spiked claims to announce its sponsors and dismisses Monbiot's allegations as a conspiracy theory .

Partners and funding

Spiked is funded through advertising and the organization of debates, events, seminars and conferences and donations from readers or companies.

According to the magazine, sponsors and partners include:

“Arts Council England, Bloomberg; the British Association for the Advancement of Science; the British Council; BT; Cadbury Schweppes; Cambridge University Press; the Cheltenham Science Festival; Colubris Networks; the City of London; Clarke Mulder Purdie; Continuum International Publishing Group; the Dana Center; the European Commission research project RightsWatch; EuroScience; Hill and Knowlton ; IBM; IN SHAPE; the Institute for the International Education of Students; the Institute of Psychiatry; International Policy Network; Luther Pendragon; the Medical Research Council; the Mobile Operators Association; the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts; Natural Environment Research Council; Orange; O2; Pfizer; the Royal Institution of Great Britain; the Social Issues Research Center; the Society of Chemical Industry; TechCentralStation; University of East London; the Wellcome Trust; and others. "

In December 2018 it was announced that Charles G. and David H. Koch , owners and chief executives of the second largest non-listed US company Koch Industries , had donated a total of US $ 300,000 to Spiked US within two years . According to Spiked editor Viv Regan, the magazine should spark public debates about free speech in the US. The Koch brothers are considered ultra - libertarian , advocate deregulation and support national-conservative or libertarian think tanks and groups such as the Tea Party movement , the Cato Institute and Americans for Prosperity in the USA .

Editors and authors

Spiked is edited by Brendan O'Neill , who succeeded Mick Hume in January 2007. Regular contributors include James Heartfield , Michael Fitzpatrick , Patrick West , Rob Lyons , Nathalie Rothschild , Tim Black, Duleep Allirajah , and Frank Furedi .

Publications by Spiked authors

James Heartfield

  • Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance (2008)
  • Let's build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years (Audacity, 2006)
  • The "Death of the Subject" Explained (Sheffield, 2002)
  • Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy (London, 2000)
  • Need and Desire in the Post-material Economy (Sheffield 1998)
  • Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age co-editor with Ian Abley (London, 2002).

Frank Furedi

  • The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis , Junius Publications, 1986
  • The Mau Mau War in Perspective , James Currey Publishers, 1989
  • Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age , Pluto Press, 1991
  • The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative , Pluto Press, 1994
  • Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism , IB Tauris, 1994
  • Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation , Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997
  • Population and Development: A Critical Introduction , Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
  • The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race , Pluto Press, 1998
  • Courting Mistrust: The Hidden Growth of a Culture of Litigation in Britain , Center for Policy Studies, 1999
  • Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and Be a Good Parent , Allen Lane, 2001
  • Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age , Routledge, 2003
  • Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone ?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism , Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004
  • The Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right , Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005
  • Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown , Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007

Patrick West

  • Conspicuous Compassion , Civitas, 2004
  • The Poverty of Multiculturalism , Civitas, 2005
  • Beating Them At Their Own Game, How The Irish Conquered English Soccer , Liberties Press, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ O'Neill, Brendan: What's worse than a Blairite? A blair basher . In: Spiked . Retrieved May 10, 2007.
  2. ↑ About spiked . In: Spiked . Retrieved July 15, 2006.
  3. ^ A b c Thomas Deichman: The Picture that Fooled the World . Archived from the original on November 10, 1999. 
  4. ↑ The Deceptive ITN Picture and the Trial of LM, documentation on the Novo website, updated June 10, 2001.
  5. ^ Alexander Cockburn: Guardian Fabricates Chomsky Quotes in Bid to Smear World's Number One Intellectual , Counterpunch . May 11, 2005 . 
  6. ↑ Appleton: A Measuring the Political Temperature . In: Spiked . Retrieved May 25, 2007.
  7. ^ Woudhuysen, Kaplinsky: After the IPCC: A man-made morality tale . In: Spiked . Accessed July 2006.
  8. ^ Philip Cunliffe: Putting the hippies on the payroll . In: Culture Wars . Retrieved March 29, 2008.
  9. ↑ Lobby Watch , Lobby Watch . Archived from the original on July 3, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 27, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lobbywatch.org 
  10. ^ Living Marxism (LM) , GM Watch . Archived from the original on March 12, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 11, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gmwatch.org 
  11. ^ Spiked Online , SourceWatch . Retrieved May 11, 2007. 
  12. ↑ George Monbiot: Interview with George Monbiot , LobbyWatch . Archived from the original on July 3, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 27, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lobbywatch.org 
  13. ^ Brendan O'Neill: 'Humanizing politics - that is my only agenda' , Spiked. Retrieved April 27, 2007. 
  14. ^ Brendan O'Neill: Gossip dressed up as investigative journalism . In: Spiked . Retrieved April 30, 2007.
  15. ↑ spiked - sponsorship packages . In: Spiked . Retrieved July 15, 2006.
  16. ↑ George Monbiot: How US billionaires are fueling the hard-right cause in Britain. In: The Guardian. December 7, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .