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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

Lawrence of Cyberia

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

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

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."
- Barack Obama at West Point, Dec. 1. Not true.

Sam Husseine, Rahul Mahajan

Keeping Iran honest

When Obama announced that "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow", he is technically and legally wrong.

Scott Ritter

Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now

Does the Obama administration believe in habeus corpus? Only in America, it seems.

Glenn Greenwald

The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza

Looking at the reasons behind the attack on Gaza

Normal Finkelstein

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

650 International Scientists Dissent Over AGW??

Climate Progress debunks the claim that there are 650 AGW-denying 'international scientists'

Climate Progress

OECD report ranks US third worst in inequality and poverty

The richest country on the planet?

Patrick O'Connor

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

Why Clinton is Culpable

How the Clinton administration deliberately sabotaged UN weapons inspections in Iraq.

Andrew Cockburn

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

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

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

Statistics on Israel / Palestine

Little known statistics on the israeli occupation of palestine

if americans knew

Milosevic: Test your media

Dispelling myths about the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.

Michael Collon

Secret (!?) plan to keep iraq under US control

or maybe not so secret... (to those who have followed the US basesin iraq)

Patrick Cockburn

The real state of Iraq

Is the surge working? Juan Cole puts the Iraqi statistics in context

Juan Cole

Wiping Israel off the Map

The most quoted quote that was never actually uttered

Arash Norouzi

Everything You Know About Iran Is A Myth

Busting the myth of the 'myth' of the holocaust

Lawrence of Cyberia