George Orwell at TFF
George Orwell remains one of the most precise critics of propaganda, language abuse, and the corrosion of truth in public life. At The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF), we return to Orwell not as a literary monument but as a working guide: his essays and fiction help us read media, war rhetoric, and official narratives with sharper attention.
Orwell warned that freedom of thought depends on honest language and independent inquiry — values at the heart of TFF’s peace research. When states and media systems normalise doublethink, citizens lose the vocabulary needed to question war, injustice, and manufactured consent. TFF publishes Orwell-related work because those questions are inseparable from building alternatives to violence.
This page gathers TFF articles on Orwell and closely related themes — media truth, propaganda, and freedom of thought — alongside selected analyses that extend his concerns into contemporary conflicts and journalism.
Core Orwell articles
We Need Their Voices Today: George Orwell
A portrait of Orwell as a writer of conscience — and why his voice still matters.
Saving Orwell
On preserving Orwell’s legacy against distortion and selective quotation.
Our Orwellian World: The anniversary of the publication of 1984
Reflections on the 1984 anniversary and the persistence of Orwellian themes today.
Edward Curtin: The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin on mainstream media, truth-telling, and Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.
Related: media & propaganda
John Pilger: War In Europe And The Rise Of Raw Propaganda
John Pilger on war in Europe and the rise of raw propaganda in Western media.
Most propaganda looks nothing like this
Why modern propaganda is subtle — and harder to recognise than classic caricatures.
Nothing in My 30 Years of Reporting Wars Compares with the Present Propaganda Dressed as Journalism
John Pilger’s classic on propaganda dressed as journalism in times of war.