straight talk

Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, also condemned the attack on social media, blaming “the American-Israeli aggressors.”

“Heartbreaking, cruel, despicable, and utterly outrageous,” Baqaei wrote. “This is not merely another war crime committed as part of an illegal war; it is a barbaric assault on basic human core values.”

the above was copied from a Common Dreams article on one of the latest american war crimes committed against iran in it's war of aggression against another relatively defenseless nation. what prompted me to copy it and comment on it is the fact that such straight talk, such honest blunt criticism of the barbaric wars and foreign policy (and for that matter the domestic policy too) of the USA is never to be found in it's mainstream corporate media, which is too busy demonizing america's imagined enemies to take the time to notice the depravity right here. what surreally gets my goat is this propagandizing works in large part because most americans act as though they too, like the establishment media, are allergic to such straight talk criticism of the nation they've been indoctrinated to love, support, and defend.

one might think that most americans would have learned by now that the first casualty of war is the truth, and that it's simply a matter of course that the enemy du jour is going to be dehumanized and demonized by their establishment media, as was perhaps most notably done last century during it's two world wars when the germans were barbaric 'huns' and the japanese were subhuman 'japs'. but of course, and very sadly, one would be wrong to think such a thing, because most sheeple never learn or take to heart such historical lessons.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pasteur-institute-iran