Governing by Fake News

<p class=ql-align-justify>What are the facts that the Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise our democracies; that terrorism has struck France not for what it does but for what it is; that the genocide in Darfur has claimed 400000 victims?... Literally none but these assertions are enough to establish the foreign policy of Western countries.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>The author a former agent of the Swiss strategic intelligence service reviews the main contemporary conflicts that Western countries have managed with fake news over the last thirty years.</p>