Winston Churchill once noted that “in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” But the UK’s WWII PM always played it straight with the British people regarding the war’s risks, costs and the country’s overall goal. In Racket, Matt Taibbi deconstructs the web of lies Biden Administration officials told the American people, other countries and themselves about every aspect of the West’s escalating involvement in Ukraine – most of all, the Big Lie denying the risk of nuclear doomsday.
How the Western News Media Came to “Trust Khomeini”
At Blacklisted, Eve Barlow reminds us of the mainstream media’s long shilling for the wrong side in the great saga of Iran. Consumed by hatred for the Shah, the CIA and the U.S. government, leading outlets like the New York Times promoted a murderous totalitarian – the Ayatollah Khomeini – as a reasonable answer to Iran’s problems. Barlow notes how the media have remained trapped in their moral inversion – to the very moment the mullahcracy finally appears set to topple.
