Our Nation Failing US Americans

11/3/2013, Talkin' Bad Journalism and Propaganda with Scott Horton, This weekend, I again had the pleasure of speaking with Scott Horton of AntiWar Radio and the aptly-named Scott Horton Show about disinformation often found in mainstream journalism on the Iranian nuclear program.

Focusing mainly on my recent article, "Propaganda & Ignorance in Reporting on Iran," published originally by Muftah.org (where I am actually co-editor of the Iran, Iraq, and Turkey pages - and not only a contributing writer, as Scott says), we also discussed career alarmist David Albright's full time job creating hysteria about Iran's nuclear program, and 30 years of erroneous claims that Iran is "on the verge" of a nuclear weapon.

There is also an extended RoboCop reference in there somewhere, which makes the entire half-hour chat well worth a listen.

Click here to listen online (and also check out Scott's incredible archive of over 3,000 interviews).

http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2013/11/talkin-bad-journalism-and-propaganda-with-scott-horton.html

The Phantom Menace:
Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering about Iran's Nuclear Program

12/29/2010

"To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary."

- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Facts rarely get in the way of American and Israeli fear-mongering and jingoism, especially when it comes to anti-Iran propaganda. For nearly thirty years now, U.S. and Zionist politicians and analysts, along with some of their European allies, have warned that Iranian nuclear weapons capability is just around the corner and that such a possibility would not only be catastrophic for Israel with its 400 nuclear warheads and state-of-the-art killing power supplied by U.S. taxpayers, but that it would also endanger regional dictatorships, Europe, and even the United States.

If these warnings are to be believed, Iran is only a few years away from unveiling a nuclear bomb...and has been for the past three decades. Fittingly, let's begin in 1984.  http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2010/12/phantom-menace-fantasies-falsehoods-and.html