Ben Arthur Thomason
Ben Arthur Thomason received his Ph.D. in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in 2024.
He specializes in the history, culture, and geopolitical economy of U.S. imperialism and soft power. He has published peer-reviewed articles, including “Save the Children, Launch the Bombs: Propaganda Agents Behind The White Helmets (2016) Documentary and Media Imperialism in the Syrian Civil War,” in The Projector (2022), and “The Moderate Rebel Industry: Spaces of Western Public-Private Civil Society and Propaganda Warfare in the Syrian Civil War,” in Media, War and Conflict (2024).
He is currently seeking to publish his manuscript, Make Democracy Safe for Empire: US Democracy Promotion from the Cold War to the 21st Century.
Get in touch with Ben by going to benarthurthomason.com or by emailing him at benthomason696@gmail.com.
Public relations machine transformed hard-line jihadists—whom Hillary Clinton famously called “hard men with guns”—into valiant freedom fighters in the eyes of the U.S.-UK public
Imagine if an armed rebellion took place in the United States against the federal, state and local governments.
Given 21st century...
From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed insurgency and large-scale pitched battles, sieges and counter-sieges in and around major Syrian cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. During that time, agents of U.S. diplomacy, soft power, defense and...
Part 1 of a series exposing the farce of so-called U.S. “democracy promotion”
If Americans know anything about U.S. involvement in Syria, they probably think of the recent Syrian Civil War (2011 to 2024). However, U.S. intervention in Syrian affairs goes back almost to Syrian independence from French colonialism in...
U.S. democracy-promotion institutions were key to destroying any hope for democratic development in Haiti after the Cold War.
In 1986, when popular uprisings kicked out the nearly 29-year-long dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” the U.S. could have become a partner to improve liberty...
