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John Pilger Blog
by John Pilger

09/29/09

The official jargon for this kind of propaganda is ‘psy-ops,’ the military term for psychological operations. In the Pentagon and Whitehall, it has become a critical component of a diplomatic and military campaign to blockade, isolate and weaken Iran by hyping its ‘nuclear threat’: a phrase now used incessantly by Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, and parroted by the BBC and other broadcasters as objective news. And it is fake...

http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=549



Exit Afghanistan and leave Iran alone

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

10/02/09

The Obama administration’s quest to control the health-insurance industry has dominated the headlines for months, but finally — with the news out of Iran and Afghanistan —foreign policy has again asserted itself. It was almost easy to forget that the United States maintains a worldwide empire, but the reminders came leaping off the front pages and the television screens. Word that the U.S. commander in Afghanistan wants 40,000 more troops and that Iran has a hitherto undisclosed uranium-enrichment facility gave the empire enthusiasts something to get excited about...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0910a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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