Patrick Cockburn — When it comes to the Iran protests, be careful who you put your trust in

A vacuum of information is created which, at a moment of intense international interest, is going to be filled with dubious stories from partisan sources.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

The Independent (UK)
When it comes to the Iran protests, be careful who you put your trust in

Patrick Cockburn

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A truism about U.S. politics and media is that once a foreign leader or a country has been demonized everything written or said about the subject will be skewed to the negative, a rule reflecting Washington’s groupthink and careerism, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes about Iran.

Consortium News
Gazing at Iran Through a Distorted Glass

Paul R. Pillar, retired CIA officer | nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a contributing editor at The National Interest, formerly federal executive fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.