Truth

Truth
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Official narrative

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Sometimes official narratives are truth. However, this website concentrates its focus on those events in which they are attempts to hide the truth.

“After a political event of the size of JFK’s assassination or 9/11, everybody runs for cover and prepares their exculpatory narrative. ‘The truth’ doesn’t make it onto the political agenda. This is normal bureaucratic behaviour.”
Robin Ramsay

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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In 1998 in South Africa, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission exposed activities of the South African deep state.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Hate speech"	“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”	George Orwell
"Lone nut"	“Nor, for example, is there any reason to interpret the 'lone assassin' verdict, which emerged immediately after the assassination as itself an indicator of the conspiracy at work. On the perspective I am suggesting, almost before Kennedy's heart stopped beating the one thing which everyone involved would have agreed upon, without discussion, never mind coercion, was that a 'lone nut' verdict had to emerge. The 'truth' was not an issue: in politics the 'truth' is simply a tool.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The point about the 'lone nut' is that it was then, and remains (cf Hinckley) the only safe explanation for political assassination within America. 'Disney America'<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>, the fantasy pluralist democracy described in the textbooks on the American political system, cannot accommodate planned political assassination.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a>”	Robin Ramsay	1983
Joseph Goebbels	“A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.”	Joseph Goebbels
Chris Hedges	“The crisis that we face is not so much an economic crisis but a moral crisis. The utter cynicism on the part of very well paid media who have become in essence hedonists of power (which is what courtiers are) that the truth no longer matters, that that sacred contract that a great reporter makes between the viewer or the reader to tell them the truth is no longer relevant.”	Chris Hedges
Journalist	“Journalism's job is not impartial 'balanced' reporting. Journalism's job is to tell the people what is really going on.”	George Seldes
Walter Lippmann	“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great”	Walter Lippmann
MLK	“He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.”	MLK
New York Times	“The truth is hard to find. The truth is hard to know. The truth is more important than ever,” reads a television ad for The New York Times. What the paper fails to add is that the hardest place to find the truth about the forces affecting the life of the average American and the truth about empire is in the Times itself. News organizations, from the [NYT] to the tawdry forms of entertainment masquerading as news on television, have rendered most people and their concerns invisible.”	Chris Hedges
George Orwell	“No government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.”	George Orwell	13 October 1944
John Swinton	“There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”	John Swinton	1880
Leo Tolstoy	“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives”	Leo Tolstoy
Malcolm X	“I am for truth, no matter who tells it.”	Malcolm X

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