Iranians responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s to
strike sites “important to Iran and the Iranian culture” with an outpouring of
photos highlighting their favorite mosques, museums, monuments, and other
stunning architecture. Using the hashtag #IranianCulturalSites, Iranians
flooded Twitter with hundreds of photos of locations and structures filled with
personal and historical significance.
We live in a crazy world,
don’t we? Politics is being outed as nothing but a cesspool of corruption,
where lies and accusations are used in order to justify military action, all
for ulterior motives, and usually to install a puppet government.
When it comes to the US killing the Iranian General Qassem
Soleiman, it’s important to remember that when you assassinate someone acting
as a ‘terrorist,’ you are also acting as a terrorist. The war against terrorism
is and always will be terrorism itself. Ask yourself, which country’s
government is leading the largest terrorist based actions in the world?
We’ve written for years about the real
power that seems to stand behind and control US
Foreign Policy, and this kind of thing is important to reflect upon
if we wish to end these continual cycles that seem to be happening every single
year. At the end of the day, the person who plays the role of the
president of the United States does not really matter, and has not really
mattered for quite some time. The power behind the president seems to be
calling the shots, and they seem to enjoy manufacturing wars that are again,
largely based on lies.
If you really want to go
deep into the politics of the situation in Iran, a great place to start is with
a book titled The CIA Insider’s Guide To The Iran
Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War, written
by Gareth Porter and John Kiriakou.
The truth is, the United
States, or at least the powers behind the country, have a long history of
painting others as dictators and sponsors of global terrorism for ulterior
motives. Here’s a perspective from the other side of the pond, via the twitter account of
Journalist Eva Barlett :
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I
scratch my head and wonder how so many, millions in the United States alone,
can and do support military intervention and action, but then I realize that
the answer is simple. For a
very long time a mass propaganda machine has existed, in large part in the form
of western mainstream media, that provides information, mostly false, that
justifies military intervention in the hearts of the citizenry. Often, the
evidence of false news emerges, for example, fake intelligence, as well as
plagiarized quotations, were found in an official intelligence report
pertaining to Iraq’s WMD presented to the UN Security Council by Secretary of
State Colin Powell on February 5, 2003. You can read more about that here. It’s simply
one of many examples. Wars are usually based upon complete lies.
The
statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is
attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,
and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them;
and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God
for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. – Mark
Twain (source)
“Iranian
cultural sites aren’t only aesthetically awe-inspiring or visually pleasing,
these sites are home to thought, dialogue, and life,” said writer Neda Monem. “Precisely why a
strike on a cultural site goes far beyond, and does not merely translate into,
the demolition of a man-made structure.”
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