John Pilger: Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran

[Truth2Tell]

http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/4013

Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
October, 15 2009
By Pilger, John
John Pilger's ZSpace Page

In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass destruction. It was all false. Supplied by US intelligence and Iraqi exiles, planted stories in the British and US media helped then-US president George Bush and then-British prime minister Tony Blair launch an illegal invasion that has caused, according to the most recent study, 1.3 million deaths.

Something similar is happening over Iran: the same syncopation of government and media "revelations", the same manufacture of a sense of crisis. "Showdown looms with Iran over secret nuclear plant", declared the British Guardian on September 26. "Showdown" is the theme.

High noon. The clock ticking. Good versus evil.

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The official jargon for this kind of propaganda is "psy-ops", the military term for psychological operations. In the Pentagon and Whitehall, it has become a critical component of a diplomatic and military campaign to blockade, isolate and weaken Iran by hyping its "nuclear threat": a phrase now used incessantly by US President Barack Obama and British PM Gordon Brown, and parroted by the BBC and other broadcasters as objective news.

And it is fake.

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Obama's "showdown" with Iran has another agenda. On both sides of the Atlantic the media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless war. The US/NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal says 500,000 troops will be required in Afghanistan over five years, NBC reported. The goal is control of the "strategic prize" of the gas and oilfields of the Caspian Sea, central Asia, the Gulf and Iran — in other words, Eurasia.

But the war is opposed by 69% of the British public, 57% of the US public and almost every other human being.

Convincing "us" that Iran is the new demon will not be easy...

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[ConsAreLiars]

1. Adding a kick with the rec. Often simple facts don't produce many comments. (nt)

[Truth2Tell]

5. I just hope the simple facts

produce a little reflection. :hi:

[HippieCowgirl]

2. K&R Good reading (n/t)

[Truth2Tell]

6. Thanks Hippie and Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Edit: just realized you've been here way longer than me. :)

[leftstreet]

3. K&R

[Orwellian_Ghost]

4. K&R

[G_j]

7. K&R

[Orwellian_Ghost]

8. Bump

[Karmadillo]

9. Pilger is so dim he can't see the difference between a Democratic Endless War and a Republican

Endless War. What a loser.