What if everything you were told about the founding of Israel, the assassination of JFK, the September 11 attacks, and the push for war with Iran was built upon a foundation of deliberate lies?
In Building Upon Lies, author David Velardo traces a decades-long architecture of deception — from the Mossad’s covert operations and false flag attacks to the manufactured intelligence that has dragged America into war after war.
Drawing on declassified documents, leaked intelligence cables, and suppressed historical evidence, this unflinching investigation exposes the hidden hands shaping global events.
A map that was never drawn. A border that was never fixed — on purpose. And a hundred years later, five wars that trace back to the same unfinished sentence.
Continuing directly from Book One, this volume follows the project into its most dangerous chapter yet — Gaza, Syria, and a war with Iran that the intelligence community itself said didn’t need to happen — and ends with a piece of pending legislation that could fuse the American and Israeli militaries so completely that no future Congress could ever pull them apart.
Built from declassified CIA and National Intelligence Council assessments, UN Commission of Inquiry findings, International Criminal Court filings, and the public statements of Israel’s own officials — this is a rigorously sourced argument that does not need embellishment to be alarming.
There is a genre of book that argues a foreign power has undue influence over American policy, and most of them fail in the same way. They open with a conclusion, fill the middle with anecdotes of varying reliability, and close by repeating the opening as though repetition were proof. This book is written to avoid both failures, and the method described here is the single most important thing a skeptical reader should evaluate. The subject matter makes the stakes unusually high: the conduct of a sovereign government, the integrity of an electoral system, and the decision to wage war.
One principle governs the entire book, and it is worth stating first because everything else follows from it: lobbying influence is scrutinized under the same standard applied to any powerful interest group, and no separate, harsher yardstick is reserved for the object of study. The fossil fuel industry, pharmaceutical companies, defense contractors, and technology firms all spend vast sums to shape American policy, often successfully and often against the public interest. The analytical framework is universal; the case study is selected for evidentiary reasons alone.
Because the subject includes claims that range from court-convicted fact to unverified allegation, the book labels its evidence plainly wherever it appears. A reader can take away the ironclad core and discard the rest without the whole argument collapsing, because the strong cases stand on their own. That resilience is the point.
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