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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAmid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part Ditz, Jason Article 2010 Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government. The Art of Lying: "Yes, That Was My Penis" and Other Ticklish PR Challenges Macaray, David Article 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 Menetrez, Frank J. Article 2008 Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working Monbiot, George Article 2009 The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening. The Cultivation of Hate: The Lies Grow More Audacious Roberts, Paul Craig Article 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 dispel... Dershowitz to the Rescue?: The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive Abourezk, James Article 2010 According to Israel's apologists, only Israelis have a right to defend themselves. Palestinians do not have this right, nor does anyone else who is attempting to assist the Palestinians. The Dershowitz Treatment: Slime Throwing as Debate Finkelstein, Norman Article 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.
Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate  Lakoff, George Book 2004 Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff al... An Empire of Lies: Why Our Media Betray Us Cook, Jonathan Article 2011 Contrary to its avowed aim, mainstream journalism invariably diminishes the impact of new events when they threaten powerful elites. Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s Grandia, Kevin and DeMelle, Brendan Article 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 un... 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria al-Gharbi, Musa; McNeil, St Article 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 Administ... The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire: The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance Mayer, Arno J. Article 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 o... Gen. John Campbell, Commander in Afghanistan and Serial Liar Lindorff, Dave Article 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 h... Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite Levine, Bruce E. Book 2011 Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, ener... Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism Kakutani, Michiko Article 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. Beers, David; and Tyee Staff and Contributors Article 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... Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey Book 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 o... The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report Corbyn, Jeremy Article 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 Blum, William Article 2011 The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya. Journalism and 'the words of power' Fisk, Robert Article 2010 More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power. JournalismSources.com Website 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 sea... The Lie Machine: The Media and the TTIP Roberts, Paul Craig Article 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 Transpa... The Lies of Alan Dershowitz Itani, Rachard Article 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 apologist... The Massacre and the Cover-Up Freeman-Maloy, Dan Article 2010 Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales... NATO - New York Times Convoy Fabrications Parsons, Renee Article 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 ... On Israel, Ukraine and Truth: The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War Pilger, John Article 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 no... On Translating Securityspeak into English: In the Land of False Cognates Carson, Kevin Article 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 t... On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza: How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas Gordon, Neve; Perugini, Nicola Article 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 inevitab... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015: Ukraine Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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 th... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016: Fake News Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017: Secrecy and Power Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power. Out Lickspittle Press: Doorkeepers to the House of Lies Roberts, Paul Craig Article 2010 Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information incons... Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice Zinn, Howard Book 1990 Essays looking at American political ideology. Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT's 1967 Attack on MLK's Anti-War Speech Greenwald, Glenn Article 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 Snow... A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia Article 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, an... The Psychology of Mountain Biking Vandeman, Michael J. Article 2000 The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually. Quotes about Lying Unclassified The real first casualty of war Pilger, John Article 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 Said, Hammad Article 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 acc... The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods Greenwalk, Glenn Article 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 g... Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006 Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.) Book 2005 A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life. The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory Fell, Nicholas Article 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. Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors: Smashing Plato's Cave Neville, Richard Article 2011 The effects of Wikileaks in showing the public what is really happening. US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000 Pilger, John Article 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 g... Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action Jones, Andrew Jerell Article 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 ... Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie: One After Another After Another Roberts, Paul Craig Article 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 Pilger, John Article 2005 When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates. Why Wikileaks Matters: The Lies of Diplomats Richman, Sheldon Article 2011 On the secret diplomatic cables disclosed by WikiLeaks. Sources LibraryConcocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power Trujillo, Josmar 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,... News and the Culture of Lying Weaver, Paul H. 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 ... War, Propaganda and the Media Shah, Anup 1999 Probably every conflict is fought on at least two grounds: the battlefield and the minds of the people via propaganda. The #good guys# and the #bad guys# can often both be guilty of misleading their p... Why Leaders Lie The Truth about Lying in International Politics Mearsheimer, John J. 2010 A systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits. |
