NFB Issue 11 
The Soho Nail-Bombing Scandal Revisited 
NFB Issue 12 
CONTRA EX MACHINA: AI & OTHER VIRTUAL PERILS by Verona Silenda (extract from NFB magazine issue 12) 
NFB IN & AGAINST THE INTERNET?
Like much else, this site is a paradox. We want our message to reach ever more people, in part via this virtual medium. Yet, we are increasingly troubled by how the internet changes both reality and how people process information/ engage in social discourse. CLICK THE HEADING ABOVE FOR MORE…
CULTWATCHING: THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION OF OUR SITE
1) A source of critical comment and resources--send us ideas on such, and new section suggestions. We do not intend to be a comprehensive 9/11 (or 7/7) resource, but a signpost directing you to appropriate information. 2) A spur to debate on our parallel site where we welcome crossing swords…
INTRODUCTION TO FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM
While we would never reduce the NFB project to anti-fascism there is no doubt such is a key component to our politics, and has been since the beginning. For us the label fascist has to be used carefully, and precisely, not as a mere term of abuse for those whose politics or…
SPIJ: DEFINED & DECONSTRUCTED
INTRODUCTION The article below is extracted (p.27-29) from a much longer article 'The Secret Agent--BBC Journo-Cops on the Case' from Notes From the Borderland issue 6 2005 p.11-39. This was a searing critique/deconstruction of the 2005 BBC/Searchlight documentary centred around an infiltration of the British National Party in Yorkshire, by…
LAST CENTURY LEFT & BEYOND
An important phrase in the NFB lexicon is the term we coined circa 2000, that of 'Last Century Left'. It has a precise meaning, though often wilfully misinterpreted. We ourselves come from, and remain on, the Left, but do not think the penny has dropped with the multiplicity of Leftist groups, drawing inspiration…
SEARCHLIGHT / HOPE NOT HATE /THE COUNTER-EXTREMISM RACKET
Update as of 8/2/22. Intrigued by our investigations into Searchlight/Hope Not Hate, we have been approached to also investigate CARR (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) until yesterday headed by Matthew Feldman. This we are doing with our usual rigour: glance at the article opposite and watch this…
THE SECRET STATE
WHAT IS THE SECRET STATE AND WHY ARE WE INTERESTED? Karl Marx (remember him?) famously described the state as a body of armed men, but times have moved on since then--as have armaments....The aspect of the state that most interests us research-wise is the 'secret state', those sections beneath…
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US – Introduction
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US In this deracinated age, serious thought and analysis is often drowned out by the babble of trolls and transient fads. It is too easy, when encountering serious thought, to just walk on by, especially if it is critical. In our media and celebrity-obsessed age, many…
INTRODUCTION TO FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM
While we would never reduce the NFB project to anti-fascism there is no doubt such is a key component to our politics, and has been since the beginning. For us the label fascist has to be used carefully, and precisely, not as a mere term of abuse for those whose politics or…
LINKS SECTION: INTRODUCED AND EXPLAINED
LINKS SECTION: INTRODUCED & EXPLAINED Discerning readers we want to encourage, for the off-line real world magazine, and this site. To paraphrase John Donne, no virtual user is an island, so too no site exists in isolation, even this one....While respecting their intentions & spirit, we are not Luddites, and…
