mythbusting

Links to articles which bust the western media's favourite myths

Date

The roots of the Syrian conflict lie in Iraq

Alastair Crooke

July 27, 2011

A list of military operations, covert operations, subverted elections carried out by the US around the world

What Really Happened

July 2, 2011

Obama has won the War on Terror debate - for the American Right. Dick Cheney and the neo-cons are grateful.

Glenn Greenwald

January 18, 2011

The arch Bliar's lies dissected

Mehdi Hasan

September 1, 2010

The government and the press say we are in the grip of a debt crisis caused by the ‘bloated’ public sector. Red Pepper debunks the myths.

Red Pepper

August 5, 2010

'The Anglo-American gameplan was to lure Saddam into a trap he could not resist...'

William Engdahl

July 27, 2010

Copenhagen was wrecked by the group of 26 countries who sabotaged the multilateral process

Martin Khor

December 28, 2009

"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

December 3, 2009

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

Scott Ritter

September 19, 2009

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

Glenn Greenwald

May 10, 2009

America's quest for Full Spectrum Dominance - and why Russia still matters

Engdahl, FW

April 4, 2009

Looking at the reasons behind the attack on Gaza

Normal Finkelstein

January 31, 2009

"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

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

Climate Progress

December 20, 2008

The richest country on the planet?

Patrick O'Connor

October 12, 2008

Democracy Now interviews Sonali Kolhatkar on the war in Afghanistan

Kolhatkar, Sonali

August 19, 2008

No women's rights in Afghanistan (no matter what our leaders say)

Jones, Ann

August 13, 2008

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

Juan Cole

June 18, 2008

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

Patrick Cockburn

June 18, 2008

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