Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True
(Blog Post) Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with Iran in a bid to resolve outstanding issues. Although Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier attempted to put the nuclear issue off the bargaining table, this rhetorical flourish was a mere opening gambit and nuclear issues will certainly dominate the talks. As Henry Kissinger pointed out, these talks are just ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Informed Comment, Opinion Source
Juan Cole's clarifying article is refreshing. Anyone that has a personal, professional or academic history of the region understands that essentially, this is the understanding of Iran to the rest of the world. This very factual distillation of reality, however, will be subject to the ideological re-purposing of facts until it is unrecognizable via corporate media outlets. Not long thereafter, an privileged American, with NO knowledge or experience in the region, will pontificate at 180 degrees from the facts stated herein and then collect a large pay-check from the erectile dysfunction pill that is sponsoring his or her info-tainment news-ish variety show. The number of people that will buy the placebos, rant with the TV info-tainer, and later -offer their opinion to a larger cadre of the terminally mis-informed - will far out number the total of those that actually grasp the reality. The News money is in fiction - not fact because News is a business.