I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

Learning from Lawrence of Arabia and facts, logic, and lies in the rush to war.

I'm talking with investigative reporter Charles Lewis.

Governments and companies lie, frequently, actually.

We rarely find out the truth until years later.

If we don't know the truth, then this idea of democracy is a, it's ludicrous.

It doesn't work if you don't have information.

And the journalists have got to start turning it up and start actually doing their job for a change

and not worry about access and be more scrutinizing of what's being said.

And the public has got to be more discerning also about what they read and what they watch and what they hear.

Thanks for joining us.

As fears grow of a widening war across the Middle East, here in our shop we find ourselves

talking about another war, the Great War, or First World War, as it would come to be called,

triggered 100 years ago this month when an assassin shot and killed Austria's Archdupe

Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

Through a series of tangled alliances and a cascade of misunderstandings and blunders,

that single act of violence brought on a bloody catastrophe.

More than 37 million people were killed or wounded.

In America, if we remember at all, we think mostly

about the battlefields and trenches of Europe and tend to forget another front in that war

against the Ottoman Empire of the Turks that dominated the Middle East. A British army officer

named T.E. Lawrence became a hero in the Arab world

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