mythbusting
Links to articles which bust the western media's favourite myths
| link | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bush, Saddam and the Kuwait Invasion |
'The Anglo-American gameplan was to lure Saddam into a trap he could not resist...' |
William Engdahl |
July 27, 2010 |
| Blame Denmark, not China, for Copenhagen failure |
Copenhagen was wrecked by the group of 26 countries who sabotaged the multilateral process |
Martin Khor |
December 28, 2009 |
| 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 |
December 3, 2009 |
| Keeping Iran honest |
When Obama announced that "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow", he is technically and legally wrong. |
Scott Ritter |
September 19, 2009 |
| Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now |
Does the Obama administration believe in habeus corpus? Only in America, it seems. |
Glenn Greenwald |
May 10, 2009 |
| Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War |
America's quest for Full Spectrum Dominance - and why Russia still matters |
Engdahl, FW |
April 4, 2009 |
| The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza |
Looking at the reasons behind the attack on Gaza |
Normal Finkelstein |
January 31, 2009 |
| 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 |
January 19, 2009 |
| 650 International Scientists Dissent Over AGW?? |
Climate Progress debunks the claim that there are 650 AGW-denying 'international scientists' |
Climate Progress |
December 20, 2008 |
| OECD report ranks US third worst in inequality and poverty |
The richest country on the planet? |
Patrick O'Connor |
October 12, 2008 |
| Afghan Civilians Bear the Brunt of Taliban Violence and US, NATO Bombings |
Democracy Now interviews Sonali Kolhatkar on the war in Afghanistan |
Kolhatkar, Sonali |
August 19, 2008 |
| Afghan Women Behind Closed Doors |
No women's rights in Afghanistan (no matter what our leaders say) |
Jones, Ann |
August 13, 2008 |
| The real state of Iraq |
Is the surge working? Juan Cole puts the Iraqi statistics in context |
Juan Cole |
June 18, 2008 |
| Secret (!?) plan to keep iraq under US control |
or maybe not so secret... (to those who have followed the US basesin iraq) |
Patrick Cockburn |
June 18, 2008 |
| 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 |
May 19, 2008 |
| Wiping Israel off the Map |
The most quoted quote that was never actually uttered |
Arash Norouzi |
May 5, 2008 |
| Statistics on Israel / Palestine |
Little known statistics on the israeli occupation of palestine |
if americans knew |
May 4, 2008 |
| 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 |
May 3, 2008 |
| 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 |
April 12, 2008 |
| Was it like this for the Irish? |
Control orders, internment and other glorious examples of Blessed Britain's regard for human rights |
Gareth Peirce |
April 1, 2008 |
