Two recent articles one by Virginia Tilley and the other an interview with Noam Chomsky, place a different light on the Iran nuclear "crisis."
Tilleys article, 'Putting words in Ahmadinejad's mouth', gets at an obvious and apparently highly overlooked fact. We in the US are not getting accurate translations of what he is actually saying. I try to keep a vigilant skeptical attitude when listening to the MSM, but this is one aspect that I had not considered.
Chomsky's interview, 'Apocalypse near', also on the Middle East, works at applying the principle of universality also in the telling of the news about Iran. He points out that it is the US that is threatening nuclear holocaust on Iran. Iran has not made this threat against the US, but we have come to think that it has, primarily through the prism of the MSM.
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