{"id":287845,"date":"2016-12-30T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-do-not-live-in-post-truth-world-we-live-in-a-world-of-lies-and-we-always-have\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:39:54","slug":"we-do-not-live-in-post-truth-world-we-live-in-a-world-of-lies-and-we-always-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-do-not-live-in-post-truth-world-we-live-in-a-world-of-lies-and-we-always-have\/","title":{"rendered":"We Do Not Live in \u201cPost Truth\u201d World, We Live in a World of Lies and We Always Have"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Ged Carroll | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We do not live in a \u201cpost-truth\u201d world, neither in the Middle East<\/a> nor in the West \u2013 nor in Russia<\/a>, for that matter. We live in a world of lies. And we always have lived in a world of lies.<\/p>\n

Just take a look at the wreckage of the Middle East with its history of people\u2019s popular republics and its hateful dictators. They feast on dishonesty, although they all \u2013 bar the late Muammar al-Gaddafi<\/a> \u2013 demand regular elections to make-believe their way back to power.<\/p>\n

Now, I suppose, it is we who have regular elections based on lies. So maybe Trump and the Arab autocrats will get on rather well. Trump already likes Field Marshal\/President al-Sissi of Egypt, and he\u2019s already got a golf course in Dubai. That he deals in lies, that he manufactures facts, should make him quite at home in the Middle East. Misogyny, bullying, threats to political opponents, authoritarianism, tyranny, torture, sneers at minorities: it\u2019s part and parcel of the Arab world.<\/p>\n

And look at Israel. The new US ambassador-to-be \u2013 who might as well be the Israeli ambassador to the US \u2013 can\u2019t wait to move the American embassy to Jerusalem. He seems to feel more antagonism towards the Jewish left in America than the Palestinians who claim East Jerusalem as a capital and whose state he has no interest in. Will Trump enrage the Arabs? Or will he get away with a little domestic rearrangement of the Israel embassy on the grounds that the Gulf Arabs, at least, know…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Ged Carroll | CC BY 2.0 We do not live in a \u201cpost-truth\u201d world, neither in the Middle East nor in the West \u2013 nor in Russia, for that matter. We live in a world of lies. And we always have lived in a world of lies. Just take a look at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}