We’ve seen this before: The lies circulating about Iran are just a much dumber, much more obvious version of those that U.S. officials used to push for the invasion of Iraq.
Caitlin Johnstone: Rebooting Iraq-War Lies for Iran
Category: Propaganda
The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Journalists & Their Shadows’
“Loyal to the orthodoxies imposed by employers” — Patrick Lawrence discusses the deterioration of journalism, the concern of his latest book.
What Happened to ‘Hamas Is ISIS & ISIS Is Hamas’?
Benjamin Netanyahu often spread the slogan to solidify Western support for Israel’s savagery in Gaza. Now the lie has been exposed once and for all, writes Joe Lauria.
Caity Johnstone: Zen & the Art of NYT Headlines
It’s amazing how creative these editors get when they need to publicly exonerate Israel and its western allies of their crimes.
Jonathan Cook: Israel Is Lying About ‘Hamas Stealing Aid’
Western journalists — having promoted Israel’s claims for more than a year and half — have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide.
Regretting Western Intervention in the Middle East
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates.
Jonathan Cook: BBC’s Shameful Interview With UNRWA Chief
There was no excuse for Jeremy Bowen to follow Israel’s example in treating the head of UNRWA as though he is aligned with terrorism.
Jonathan Cook: Shilling for Israel’s Genocide
These shills are as morally culpable as the court historians who in 1930s Germany denounced those who opposed the extermination of Jews, Romanies, Communists, the disabled and gays as anti-Aryan racists. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Anyone who at this point…
Chris Hedges: Trumpland
The dynamiting, by the Trump administration, of decayed and corrupt institutions will mark the end of the American experiment and the shift from inverted totalitarianism to dictatorship.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Losing & Learning Nothing
The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat.