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How Major Mass US Media Help Demonize Iran Comment by Larry Ross, August 9, 2007
This important story details how major US media, such as the New York Times and two of its so-called reporters, Michael Gordon and John Burns, help to demonise Iran using false accusations to imply "Iran directed killing 5 US soldiers". Big lies and false accusations shape US pubic attitudes to hate Iran and thus approve a future US war on Iran. Many such unsubstantiated accusations are made. This time a top US newspaper with a prestigious reputation has joined directly in the 'demonize Iran' campaign of the Bush Administration. The NYT played the same role in helping condition the US public to accept Bush's lies and false accusations against Iraq before the war in 2003. They still accept Bush's version of why he is making war on Iraq. They will not expose the lies his administration invented to justify this war. So far as I know the NYT has not admitted its pro-war propaganda role before and during the infamous Iraq war. This latest story suggests they are determined to perform in the same way for Bush's coming war on Iran. There is another possibility. The captured suspect has been imprisoned by the US military for a month. It is well known that terrorist suspects are tortured until they admit to any story they think will stop the torture, no matter how inaccurate. The US then uses such bogus stories as proof of the false accusations The Bush Administration wants the public to believe. The mass US media repeats these false accusations usually with sympathetic right-wing commentary and editorials. They suppress dissent or corrective facts. Was the case below an example of this technique? The Bush Administration is reliant on the mass media to give authenticity to their lies, and repeat the lies to the public. By not publishing significant criticism, or corrective facts and analysis, the 'big lie' becomes 'the truth' for most Americans. Naturally that encourages the Bush Administration to stage more 'big lie' operations to convince Americans that Iranians are the new enemies killing 'our soldiers'. These sensational lies are repeated by media in many US-allied countries to convince foreign publics and governments of the validity of US policies. The 'big lie' media stories are re-enforced by similar false so-called intelligence briefings. They are secretly conveyed to friendly foreign governments to gain sympathy and to influence their policies. Informed citizens in foreign countries may have the expertise to try and identify and refute such ;bogus US stories. But Governments often prefer to rely on phoney US 'secret' intelligence to give them the facts, rather than objective analysis of that intelligence by their own people. So far as is known there is no independent analysis and evaluation of US claims and intelligence. Thus countries such as New Zealand , Australia and Britain may be totally controlled by phoney US intelligence and policy briefings that are unknown to the public. When the US war plan on Iran is implemented, the triggering event will probably be a false flag attack on the US which the Bush Administration will blame on Iran. Or some other false flag incident may be staged that will outrage Americans and gain foreign sympathy for a US retaliatory war. If it is a large false flag with many US casualties, the US retaliation will be proportionate. A pre-emptive nuclear strike against Iran is possible as has been mentioned by many experts, as well as by George Bush who claims it is on the table. Once the war plan has started, especially if it is basedon a 'false flag', there will be a world-wide media blitz to repeat and embed the lies in the public consciousness everywhere. The Bush Administration has been preparing their public for a big terrorist attack on the US - even a nuclear attack. Unless people are informed and knowledgeable about false flags and how such conspiracies have been used in the past, they will tend to believe official 'big lies'. Although it may be illogical that Iran would risk self-annihilation by attacking the US, that is what most people will believe. Also, most people certainly won't believe that the Bush Administration could, or would, attack the US , causing many casualties. That would appear to be totally absurd to those who are uninformed, misinformed and already conditioned to regard Iran as the enemy and Bush as the great protector and defender of the US against terrorism. Even if people are reasonably well-informed about the lies the Bush Administration told them to justify the unprovoked war on Iraq, they will still believe the new bigger lies about Iran, and Bush's justification for a nuclear strike. Indeed some Americans are already calling for a nuclear strike against Iran, based only on Bush's demonization campaign and his phoney accusations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
US Republicans Favour Iran Nuclear Strike by Reuters, June 7, 2007 Republican candidates for US president agreed on Tuesday that Iran must not develop atomic weapons even if a tactical nuclear strike is needed to stop it and accused Democrats of being soft on the issue. * Presidential candidates say Iran must not develop nuclear weapons The front-runners for the Republican Party nomination in the November 2008 election also squabbled among themselves over a broad immigration overhaul being debated by the US Congress. In a debate in New Hampshire where the country's first primary will be held next year, they were largely in agreement on an issue that President George W Bush considers vital - preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. It is up to informed American people to try and reform their media, as well as acting to impeach Bush and his associates before they initiate catastrophic criminal events that are irreversible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Iran Attack That Wasn't by Gareth Porter, August 2, 2007
How reporters trumped up a story about Iranians killing Americans in Iraq. |
