Parroting Israel and Saudi Arabia, much of Official Washington blames Iran for the current instability across the Mideast, but that may rank as one of the most inside-out explanations imaginable, as Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett explain.
Category: Lost History
Israel’s ‘Legitimacy’ War
There are legitimate questions about the legitimacy of Israel’s endless repression of the Palestinian people, but Israel and its backers have now declared such questions illegitimate as they mount a new propaganda war against Israel’s “delegitimization,” says John V. Whitbeck.
Obama’s ‘G-1-plus-6’
Killing the Black Panthers
PBS Gets in Line on Syrian War
Sleepwalking to Another Mideast Disaster
How Reagan’s Propaganda Succeeded
An Urgent Reassessment of Jesus
Playing with the Fire of Terrorism
Holes in the Neocons’ Syrian Story
Exclusive: The Islamic State and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front continue to make gains in Syria while Official Washington plays the blame game, pushing a dubious narrative that the crisis wouldn’t have happened if President Obama had just backed “regime change” earlier, Robert Parry reports.