“The Trump administration has launched an offensive of speeches and online communications meant to foment unrest and help pressure Iran to end its nuclear program and its support of militant groups, U.S. officials familiar with the matter said.”
That is the lead paragraph of a recent story in Reuters. The headline says, “U.S. launches campaign to erode support for Iran’s leaders.”
Read the entire story here.
I haven’t written anything about the asinine ‘Russia-meddling’ brouhaha, or Trump’s dangerous withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, because both topics are such a stew of lies, misinformation, partisan back-stabbing and political/media hypocrisy that I get a headache whenever I considered writing a post.
Maybe I will try something in the future, before Trump starts a war with Iran in an attempt to distract from his overtures to Russia, which are important, valuable, necessary and worthy of praise!
No, I have not become a Trump fan. Not even close. But the hyper-partisanship that blinds people to the truth and turns them into knuckle-headed contrarians objecting to worthwhile diplomacy is going to lead us into another insane war if we are not careful.
Anyway, I saw this headline on Twitter and read the article. It is important to be aware of what the US is doing in Iran, not because it is unprecedented but because it is common practice, and we do it constantly in many different places.
To just scratch the surface of the many abominable things wrong with the mainstream discussion of ‘Russia-meddling,’ the Reuters article provides a perfect window into both the hypocrisy and the supreme irony of current US domestic politics and the corporate media’s manipulation of a sheepish American public.
