Massa Media and Trump Pretend to Disagree About War on Iran to Rehabilitate the Myth of an Independent Media but They Serve the Same Masters. The Dependent Media Has Pushed Iran Propaganda for Decades

From [HERE] Janine Jackson: House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Brian Mast declared of Iran, “This murderous regime has posed an imminent threat against every American, both at home and abroad, for the last 47 years,” leading many, at home and abroad, to reach for their dictionaries.

The Trump White House’s war on Iran is unpopular in the US. Even the highest level of public support for this conflict falls far lower than that at the start of most other conflicts, including World War II, the Korean War and the Iraq War, reports the New York Times.

That may have something to do with the parade of rationales being offered. Popular Information has a roundup of the (so far) 17 different reasons the Trump regime has given to date for why we went to war.

And all of it normalized by corporate media that allow recorded history to be put up for debate, that pretend we haven’t seen what we’ve seen, leaving today’s warmongers free to draw up a historical narrative, or several, that serve their present purpose.

As we record on March 12, some 251 groups have sent a letter to Congress demanding they vote against any additional funding for this unconstitutional war, which is now costing an estimated billion dollars a day. Signers included Public Citizen, the ACLU, Greenpeace, J Street and National Nurses United. “A supplemental worth $50 billion,” the letter notes,

would be enough to restore food assistance for 4 million Americans, establish universal pre-K education, and pay for the annual construction of more than 100,000 units of housing.

CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We’re going to revisit some of those conversations today. [MORE]