Jonathan Cook,journalist
" Media Lens on the most dangerous kind of "fake news" - that backed by
the corporate media as it regurgitates simplistic good guy-bad guy
narratives to promote the west's regime overthrow agenda.
Media Lens highlight the false certainty of media pundits who claim to have identified the causes of recent unrest in Iran.
Iran has been a favoured target for regime overthrow since the Iranian
Revolution nearly 40 years ago. The west's desire to destabilise the
country has intensified since the late 1990s, when Israel and the US
neocons found common cause in cementing Israel's position as the Middle
East's hegemon.
One partial explanation for the protests in Iran
that is largely overlooked is that the west has enforced for many years
Iran's economic immiseration, despite the 2015 nuclear accord that was
supposed to lift sanctions.
Both Obama and Trump have reneged on
that promise. That was not accidental, but intended to foment the very
unrest we see now.
Media Lens:
The refusal of corporate
media to discuss this corporate media contribution to fake news means
its discussion is itself fake. And not just fake - to ignore the crucial
contribution of corporate fake news to the destruction of whole
countries is insane. Blanking obvious, key aspects of reality truly is a
form of social insanity. ...
Thanks to social media, readers are
at last able to see some rational dissent – the imperial corporate
commentariat is now naked. One of the up-sides to social media that the
'mainstream' cannot even discuss. "
