Investigative reporter Robert Parry explains why just about everything the government says about U.S. policy in the Middle East is a damned lie and what the truth is instead.

MP3 here.

Robert Parry, who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek, runs ConsortiumNews.com, and is the author of Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and the brand new Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush.