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Lying AlterLinks Topic Index Alan Dershowitz: Lawyer for Zionist Lies and Spies Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 The Art of Lying "Yes, That Was My Penis" and Other Ticklish PR Challenges Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 People in the public eye should have learned enough from past blunders to come up with a different strategy when asked potentially damaging questions. The Case Against Alan Dershowitz Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel. Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or that’s what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low. The Cultivation of Hate The Lies Grow More Audacious Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts. The Dershowitz Treatment Slime Throwing as Debate Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 An expose of Alan Dershowitz's record, showing that he has repeatedly resorted to lies, slander, fabrications, falsifications and plagiarism in public debate and in his published works. Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company. 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria. The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization. Gen. John Campbell, Commander in Afghanistan and Serial Liar Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 After weeks of lies, the Obama administration and the Pentagon, unable to find any way to explain their murderous hour-long AC-130 gunship assault on and destruction of a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, have turned to a new lie: they bombed the wrong building. Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies. Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law. Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government. Imperial Crusades Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars. The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons. It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth. The Anti-Empire Report Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya. Journalism and 'the words of power' Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power. JournalismSources.com Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information. The Liar's Manual Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 The Lie Machine The Media and the TTIP Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. Consider, for example, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnership. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 The Lies of Alan Dershowitz Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Violence is never the answer. Nor is racism. Nor is hate. Alan Dershowitz is a proponent of all three. Israelis and sympathetic Jews must finally realize that Dershowitz and other uncritical apologists of Israel are neither doing them nor the world any favors. Quite the opposite is true. The Lies of Alan Dershowitz Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Lies Rob Ford has told Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Mr. Bush's truthfulness Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 The truthfulness-challenged President. NATO - New York Times Convoy Fabrications Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 On Saturday, the entire humanitarian convoy of 227 trucks crossed back into Russia without incident after having successfully delivered its contents to the Luhansk distribution centre. The unwavering round trip project from Russia surmounted considerable bureaucratic delays and political obstacles including wild assertions that the convoy’s true purpose was to ‘smuggle weapons’ to the east Ukraine rebels. News and the Culture of Lying Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 The news media lie, says Weaver, not by slipshod reporting or unethical practices, but in the very "plot structure" of the news, in the masks of impersonality assumed by reporters and editors, and in catering to advertising interests and the appetite for excitement. On Bullshit Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 On Israel, Ukraine and Truth The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular. In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in 1984. "Democracy" is now a rhetorical device. Peace is "perpetual war". "Global" is imperial. The once hopeful concept of "reform" now means regression, even destruction. "Austerity" is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few. On Translating Securityspeak into English In the Land of False Cognates Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them. On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015 Ukraine Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016 Fake News Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017 Secrecy and Power Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power. Passionate Declarations Essays on War and Justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Essays looking at American political ideology. Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT's 1967 Attack on MLK's Anti-War Speech Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 John Oliver's Monday night interview of Edward Snowden -- which in 24 hours has been viewed by 3 million people on YouTube alone -- renewed all the standard attacks in Democratic circles accusing Snowden of being a traitor in cahoots with the Kremlin. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged. Quotes about Lying Resource Type: Unclassified Radical Digressions 3 Resource Type: Website Published: 2006 The real first casualty of war Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries. Relevance of Hannah Arendt's "A Report On The Banality Of Evil" To Gaza Self-Deception, Lies And Stupidity Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Hannah Arendt, philosopher, writer, academic of Jewish heritage, went to Jerusalem in 1961 to cover the trial of Eichmann, one of the actors in the Final Solution, for the New Yorker magazine. Her account of the trial became a basis for the book, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil. The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area. The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful. The price of one lie is the loss of many truths (TM) Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Does a 4000-year-old law harm us today? You bet it does. Names coming out of that law are in our language today and are being used everyday. US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000 Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 After more than a year, the silence of those who wrote and broadcast the propaganda for Nato's "humanitarian war" over Kosovo remains unbroken: they who answered the Prime Minister's call to join "a great moral crusade" against a regime that was "set on a Hitler-style genocide equivalent to the extermination of the Jews during World War Two". The Varnished Truth Truth Telling and Deceiving in Ordinary Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A video supplied to The New York Times, showing the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott at the hands of a South Carolina police officer, appears on first viewing to be the latest example of an unarmed black person killed unnecessarily by a white cop. Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie One After Another After Another Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. We need to be told Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates. Your Call is Important to Us The Truth About Bullshit Resource Type: Book

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