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The new bogey on the block

Since 9/11 we have witnessed the "bad-guys" being Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and so on.  Now the latest bogey is Iran.    Glenn Greenwald rightly points out in his latest op-ed piece "U.S. media takes the lead on Iran" on Salon, how the American media, unquestioningly, is going along with the ride in blackening Iran and essentially talking up war on Iran or at least an attack on that country's nuclear facilities.

"It’s just remarkable to watch the American media depict Iran as the threatening, aggressive party here. Literally on a daily basis, political and media figures in both the U.S. and Israel openly threaten to attack Iran and debate how the attack should happen with a casualness that most people use to contemplate what to have for lunch. The U.S. has orchestrated devastating and always-escalating sanctions which, by design, are wrecking the Iranian economy, collapsing its currency, and generating serious hardship for its 75 million citizens. The U.S. military has that country almost completely encircled. The U.S. military behemoth, and Israel’s massive nuclear stockpile and sophisticated weaponry, make the Iranian military by comparison look almost as laughable as Saddam’s. Iran’s scientists have been serially murdered on its own soil, their facilities bombarded with sophisticated cyber attacks, and dissident groups devoted to the overthrow of their government (ones even the U.S. designates as Terrorists) have been armed, trained and funded by Israel while leading American politicians openly shill for them in exchange for substantial payments."

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