When an Official Enemy Is Assassinated, Corporate Media Roll Out the Pretexts
Even those accusations that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh took part in a now-defunct weapons program are largely based on fabricated evidence.
Missing Perspective in Media: Iran/Venezuela Ties Are None of US’s Business
Corporate media coverage of Iranian oil shipments to Venezuela has framed the deliveries as a problem that needs to be solved, rather than a commercial transaction that doesn’t concern third parties.
‘The US Reaction to Pressure to Ease Sanctions Was to Double Down’
“If there were an opposition movement in countries like Canada and the United States and Europe, the demand wouldn’t just be, ‘You gotta stop this’; the demand would actually be, ‘Hey, we’ve got to prosecute the people involved with this. This is killing people. This is a crime. People should be facing legal consequences for this.’”
Mike Elk on Frontline Worker Rights, Joe Emersberger on Pandemic Sanctions
What would it look like to call corporate media’s bluff on their sudden, serious respect for working people who didn’t start being important because there’s a contagious disease going around?
As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Because the US government is directly responsible for Iranian deaths, Washington’s role should be a central concern to US media. Yet that’s not the case, according to an examination of stories.
Media Struggle to Defend Washington’s Cruelty Toward Venezuela and Iran as Coronavirus Spreads
The IMF loan rejection as the deadly coronavirus spreads underscores that the US government’s concern was the opposite of what it claimed: It always wanted Venezuela’s humanitarian situation to get worse, not better.
No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home
Even on the debate’s own terms, there’s a much stronger case that the US rather than Iran is actually the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism.
‘This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran’
“This, I think, is one of the more central and deeper and troubling assumptions in imperialist media, that the United States and its partners are allowed to kill whomever they want, wherever they want, and no resistance to that is legitimate.”
Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon
Netflix’s Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy is an entertainment product that advances US interests through character assassination of a popular left-wing Latin American leader.
The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence
Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere.
Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment
If Facebook is removing content because it believes it is required to do so by law, that is government censorship—and forbidden by the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of the press.
Gregory Shupak on Iran Assassination, Brett Hartl on Biodiversity Loss
The overt saber-rattling may be slowing now, but is that any thanks to media? Does it even mean an end to violence?
From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination
When the president carries out dangerous, aggressive actions, such as the assassination of Iranian general and political leader Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3, “resistance” turns to assistance from the corporate press.
Steady Hand Joe
Election Focus 2020: Despite Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s prominent role in leading the US into the disastrous Iraq War, and his recent stream of lies and equivocations about why he supported it and when he began to reverse his position, many pundits continue to uncritically paint Biden as “mature” or a “steady hand” on foreign policy.
The NYT’s Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran
The New York Times’ “anti-war” arguments are woefully lacking—vilifying Iran without subjecting the US to comparable scrutiny, and hiding US aggression towards Iran.
Wired’s Gee-Whiz High-Tech Militarism
In Wired’s imagination, military weapons resemble otherworldly creations, high-tech spectacles, the stuff of science fiction.
Creating a Climate for War With Iran
Media outlets are creating a climate for a US military attack on Iran by hyping the idea that Iran is an imminent threat to peace. Headlines breathlessly suggest to readers that Iranians are going to kill Americans if Americans don’t kill Iranians first.
Iran ‘Violates’ Nuclear Deal, After US ‘Withdraws’
Reading corporate media’s inversion of reality, it’s hard to escape the impression that while Iran betrays its international agreements, the US just leaves them behind.
In Media’s Looking Glass, US Doesn’t Threaten Iran But Merely Responds to Iranian Threats
US leaders have been threatening Iran for years, but US corporate media persistently and wrongly paint US escalations against Iran as defensive countermeasures.
Extra! Soundbites June 2019
When Is a Coup Not a Coup? When Media Say It Isn’t One Merriam-Webster defines “coup” as “the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.” Surely that’s what Juan Guaido was striving for when he urged Venezuela’s military to overthrow elected President Nicolas Maduro. But corporate media went through convolutions […]
