1948 law passed for propaganda to be aired via Radio Farda and Voice of America only in Iran.
According to statistics released by Washington Post, the U.S. Congress has allocated an annual budget of $7 million to Radio Farda. This soft war machine unremittingly produces and disseminates falsehood and mendacious propaganda against the nation of Iran.

So we are possibly contemplating entering into another war to counter the Iranian “threat,” which this time, per Israel, is directed against the entire civilized world. It is being presumed that President Obama would find it difficult not to do so, in support of “friend and close ally” Israel — by Philip Giraldi / Antiwar.com

So let us get this straight. It seems there are two worlds. The real world of facts and evidence and the unreal world of political fantasy. Our political leaders and their advisers are, apparently, stuck in the unreal one. Their words, and their policies, are built on the assumptions of this fantasy world. They go to war and kill people based on beliefs that are demonstrably false. And the rest of us? Most of us are stuck in our own local niches and beyond them we do not know what is real or unreal. — by Dr. Lawrence Davidson

The killing of civilians is not “accidental”

Their deadly military mission to ‘save the people from terrorist fundamentalists’, a self-serving self-deception, is, in fact, a ladder up the military-political hierarchy. Each step up depends on waging a ‘just war’ to a successful conclusion– by Prof. James Petras

In a moment when something we call “democracy” seems to be spreading through the dodgy precincts of the world like a contagion of virtue, the trend is actually going the other way in countries that have practiced it for a while.

It appears that the American Dream and the Great American Economy were both built on one gigantic and unstable fault line. And the core is trembling!

What they don’t do is buy and sell elected leaders, or lobby to send Americans to war.
Time we thought about a new scale. The one we have been using seems to have a thumb print or two on it.

by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor — Veterans Today

Scott Horton’s incredible interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh. “Iran and the Bomb: How real is the nuclear threat;” Obama’s acute isolation within the White House echo chamber; and some sane advice from retired ambassador Thomas Pickering: stop hectoring Iran about a non-existent nuclear weapons program and negotiate like grown-ups.