mythbusting
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... [A] myth is a myth because it is a story that tells an underlying, existential truth about the people who tell it
The myths in the articles below are western media myths. It is not hard to work out the stories they tell and the purpose they serve.
| Was it like this for the Irish? |
Control orders, internment and other glorious examples of Blessed Britain's regard for human rights |
Gareth Peirce |
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| Saddam's desperate offers to stave off war |
Washington dismissed Iraq's peace feelers, including elections and weapons pledge, put forward via diplomatic channels and US hawk Perle |
Julian Borger et al |
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| Are Obama and Clinton Being Honest About How Afghan War Began? |
"Only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden [did we send] our troops into Afghanistan." |
Sam Husseine, Rahul Mahajan |
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| Keeping Iran honest |
When Obama announced that "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow", he is technically and legally wrong. |
Scott Ritter |
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| Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now |
Does the Obama administration believe in habeus corpus? Only in America, it seems. |
Glenn Greenwald |
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| The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza |
Looking at the reasons behind the attack on Gaza |
Normal Finkelstein |
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| You are being lied to about pirates |
"because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor." |
Hari, Johann |
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| 650 International Scientists Dissent Over AGW?? |
Climate Progress debunks the claim that there are 650 AGW-denying 'international scientists' |
Climate Progress |
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| OECD report ranks US third worst in inequality and poverty |
The richest country on the planet? |
Patrick O'Connor |
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| China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp |
The violent riots in Tibet's capital in mid-March were apparently a carefully staged event. |
Michel Chossudovsky |
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| Why Clinton is Culpable |
How the Clinton administration deliberately sabotaged UN weapons inspections in Iraq. |
Andrew Cockburn |
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| Depleted Uranium |
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. |
David Gutierrez |
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| How come Zimbabwe and Tibet get all the attention? |
If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of - or be - the western powers. |
Seumas Milne |
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| Twenty Reasons against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran |
Debunking the main unfounded accusations, lies and distortions on Iran by the US and its allies. |
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran |
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| Statistics on Israel / Palestine |
Little known statistics on the israeli occupation of palestine |
if americans knew |
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| Milosevic: Test your media |
Dispelling myths about the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. |
Michael Collon |
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| Secret (!?) plan to keep iraq under US control |
or maybe not so secret... (to those who have followed the US basesin iraq) |
Patrick Cockburn |
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| The real state of Iraq |
Is the surge working? Juan Cole puts the Iraqi statistics in context |
Juan Cole |
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| Wiping Israel off the Map |
The most quoted quote that was never actually uttered |
Arash Norouzi |
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| Everything You Know About Iran Is A Myth |
Busting the myth of the 'myth' of the holocaust |
Lawrence of Cyberia |
