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This week on CounterSpin: In a world rife with military conflict, the Iran nuclear deal is cited as an example of diplomacy at work. It seems clear that Donald Trump wants to destroy the deal, in part by misrepresenting it. How should reporters cover White House maneuvers to depict Iran’s compliance as non-compliance, and make clear what’s at stake? We’ll talk with The Intercept‘s Murtaza Hussain about that.
Transcript: The World May Conclude That the U.S. is No Longer Capable of Diplomacy
Also on the show: If the animal agriculture industry has nothing to hide, why do they want to criminalize documentation of their practices? And if they have something to hide, why are state legislators helping them cover it up by criminalizing investigation? We’ll talk with Chip Gibbons, journalist and policy and legislative counsel for Defending Rights & Dissent, about the group’s new report on “ag-gag” laws.
Transcript: Legislators Criminalize Practices That Led to Wrongdoings Being Exposed
And a quick look by Janine Jackson at PBS NewsHour‘s misreporting of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
SOURCE LINKS:
- “How Donald Trump Is Trying to Blow Up the Iran Nuclear Deal,” by Murtaza Hussain (9/10/17)
- Ag-Gag Across America, Center for Constitutional Rights Defending Rights & Dissent
Iran has follwowed all the steps and kept to the agreements . I am tired of people with vested money interests trying to make the world a scarier place ! We already had to live through that previous GIANT Bush/ Cheney lie about weapons of . mass destruction………..If the world really wants truth, please israel , become a party to the IAEA , just as Iran has done. Since Israel won’t join the IAEA, then nothing Israel says against other nations should be listened to at all. Why Israel, should the world listen to you—-when you seem to believe that every one else must follow the rules except for yourselves? People do not see you as an honest player .
Counter-counterspin: You link to a decent post by Mr. Hussain. Here’s a link to a much less decent post:
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/syrias-white-helmets-risk-everything-to-save-the-victims-of-airstrikes/
I could trust Mr. Hussain’s objectivity, journalistic competence, and so claims, about as much as I could throw him. What next: An interview with Sean Hannity? Rachel Maddow? Glenn Beck? To get their keen and completely objective takes?
Repeating as fact the words of a White Helmet terrorist, in my book that makes Mr. Hussain a terrorist.
Mr. Hussain
“We are not asking for anything, except the implementation of the resolutions and agreements asking for an end to the indiscriminate bombings, besiegement, torture, and use of chemical weapons by the regime,” Saleh says. “We know that the resolutions to stop these things are not being implemented in Syria because there is no respect for them. There needs to be a political will to stop this catastrophe.”
TERRORIST ISRAEL — ANTI-TERRORIST IRAN
Empire USA orders Israel to steal Palestine land at gunpoint, all the more terrorism the better for trading Middle-East oil for war materials. On the other hand, Iran gives Hezbollah the funds, arms and training needed to stop Empire USA Israel from terrorizing Lebanon.
Add to this the material support that Iran gives to Iraq, Syria, Gaze and others who oppose Empire USA expansion, then it becomes clear that if the nuclear agreement with Iran is broken, as the international community loves wars of aggression for Western expansion, to get the ball rolling all Nikki Haley need do is give a rousing-inspiring speech.
A ditching of the Iran deal by the 1 of P5+1 will comprehensivley cause a revolt by the P5 who will ditch the USA on it and countersanction washington if they try and bully them into compliance like they have done in the past with their unilateral crap. The Russian sanctions are soon to get the chop from Germany as it is. Call the ginger possums bluff an=d tell him to take a hike.
ANYTHING out of an American officials mouth is propaganda!
All they care about is pushing the goals of their owners.
Nothing to do with peace or the needs and wants of the American people.
Our “ambassador” to the UN like all the other Drumpf appointees is there to destroy, disrupt or make that agency a tool of Drumpf’s owners.