Mythbusting articles
What is a myth?
"Humans are complex beings who live in complex societies, and are capable of thoughts, insights and feelings beyond the mere physical needs of everyday life. Some of the intangible things that we feel about ourselves are difficult to articulate, so we express them by telling stories. And that’s what myths are. Myths are stories that groups of people tell to express and justify their most fundamental beliefs about themselves, their origins, their essential nature and their aspirations."
Lawrence of Cyberia, in Everything you know about Iran is a myth
This page charts some of the best attempts to bust the most dangerous myths around today...
| Title | Author | |
|---|---|---|
| Afghan Women Behind Closed Doors | Ann Jones | No women's rights in Afghanistan - despite the claims of our leaders February 2007 |
| Afghan Civilians Bear the Brunt of Taliban Violence and US, NATO Bombings | Sonali Kolhatkar | Democracy Now interviews Sonali Kolhatkar on the war in Afghanistan Aug 2008 |
| Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War | F William Engdahl | America's quest for Full Spectrum Dominance - and why Russia still matters February 2007 |
| Everything You Know About Iran Is A Myth | Lawrence of Cyberia | Busting the myth of the 'myth' of the holocaust July 2006 |
| Wiping Israel off the Map | Arash Norouzi | The most quoted quote that was never actually uttered May 2008 |
| The real state of Iraq | Juan Cole | Is the surge working? Juan Cole puts the Iraqi statistics in context June 2008 |
| Secret (!?) plan to keep iraq under US control | Patrick Cockburn | or maybe not so secret... (to those who have followed the US basesin iraq) June 2008 |
| Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons | David Gutierrez | The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II. May 2008 |
| Twenty Reasons against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran | Debunking the main unfounded accusations, lies and distortions on Iran by the US and its allies. December 2007 |
| How come Zimbabwe and Tibet get all the attention? | Seumas Milne | If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of - or be - the western powers. May 2008 |
| if americans knew | if americans knew | little known statistics on the israeli occupation of palestine May 2008 |
| The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp | Michel Chossudovsky | The violent riots in Tibet's capital in mid-March were apparently a carefully staged event. 2009, April |
| Milosevic: Test your media | Michel Collon | Dispelling myths about the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. 2006, March 16 |
| Poverty and human rights | Thomas Pogge | Thomas Pogge on poverty and human rights. 2005, August |
| Freire on neutrality | Paolo Freire | The guru of 'progressive' educationalists - those who deny that one should ever take a stand - tells us what he thinks about neutrality. 1995 |
| Why Clinton is Culpable | Andrew Cockburn | How the Clinton administration deliberately sabotaged UN weapons inspections in Iraq. Sept. 2007 |