HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE 4TH OF JULY (2)

In his weekly broadcast from France, Dr Daffern draws on historical research to give the background to the Declaration of Independence and also to the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848. He discusses truth, propaganda and what criteria philosophers have developed over centuries to distinguish between truth and lies, and why politicians need a Parliamentary Veracity Bill (as the last unregulated profession). he discussed the progress and protocols of the International Commission of Inquiry into the Aetiology of COVID 19 and the ongoing furore over vaccine safety. He then gives another example of contested truths in the origins of Islam and the victimisation of Fatima, Ali and the immediate family of the Prophet Muhammad, and tells the story of his death and that of son Hassan and Hussain and most of their descendants. Anti-Ali propaganda became an industry with the Ummayad dynasty who manufactured fake hadiths to discredit him. So history is full of “truth battles“. What should the role o