Friday, January 5, 2018

Adam Johnson — Think Tank-Addicted Media Turn to Regime Change Enthusiasts for Iran Protest Commentary

Since the outbreak of mass demonstrations and unrest in Iran last week, US media have mostly busied themselves with the question of not if we should “do something,” but what, exactly, that something should be. As usual, it’s simply taken for granted the United States has a divine right to intervene in the affairs of Iran, under the vague blanket of “human rights” and “democracy promotion.” (The rare exception, such as an op-ed by ex-Obama official Philip Gordon—New York Times, 12/30/17—still accepted the premise of regime change: “I, too, want to see the government in Tehran weakened, moderated or even removed.”) With this axiom firmly established in Very Serious foreign policy circles, the next question becomes the nature, degree and scope of the “something” being done.
Propaganda pumps and the echo chamber.

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Think Tank-Addicted Media Turn to Regime Change Enthusiasts for Iran Protest Commentary
Adam Johnson

2 comments:

Varsha Reddy said...

Good post. Thanks for sharing
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Noah Way said...

File it under Fake News. Media military "experts" are uniformly retired generals. What the media doesn't tell anyone is that they are working for the big "defense" contractors, This has been going on for decades.