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BEN CHACKO recommends a pamphlet which lucidly separates the propaganda chaff from the grain of truth
FACT NOT FICTION: If people really knew the truth, the war would stop tomorrow
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
Lies, Propaganda and the West’s War in Ukraine
by Chris Nineham
Stop the War, £5
BRITAIN’S peace movement is being silenced — though not, in the eyes of its enemies, comprehensively enough, as we saw with former Jeremy Corbyn aide Andrew Fisher’s plea to wind up the Stop the War Coalition this month.
There are various motivations for the unprecedented ban on Labour MPs questioning Nato, the dramatic increase in censorship of alternative narratives online and the (Morning Star excepted) wall-to-wall media support for fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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