TEHRAN — In Iran’s first official reaction to leaked State Department cables quoting Arab leaders as urging the United States to bomb Tehran’s nuclear facilities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the documents as American psychological warfare that would not affect his country’s relations with other nations, news reports said...
Of course, now that The New york Pravda quotes it from Iran, it must be Iranian propaganda. It says so right there on the label.
Yes, I am sure the Company led the cyber attack on Wikileaks over the weekend. Yes, I am sure they would lock Julian Assange in the pen if they had a chance. Yes, I am very sure Wikileaks is now a made site for D.o'D. psychological operations.
I suspect Assange is only reporting what the Company wants you to hear.
I can not be certain if he realizes it.
There is absolutely nothing in the last couple of rounds of leaks that wasn't already known by people who pay attention. Spying on the U.N. is news? Every Sunni muslim nation wants us to take out Shiite Iran is news?
So you have a quasi-illegal website that leaks information widely known as fact. The Afghani government is corrupt. We murder civilians. We spy on the Brits. Israel wants us to nuke Iran, and have a plan of their own for Iranian regime change. Really?
Then the Company gets a chance to advocate closing down websites and jailing anyone who says what many already know.
It's a really sweet scam, and the main$tream has fallen for it, since they stand to profit nicely from it.
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Of course this is part of the State Department's view of the world, not an objective view of the world. Saudi Arabia saying "Come on you guys, Iran is totally bent on world domination!" doesn't make it so. It seems to me that powerful people do not usually speak to each other using much in the way of truth.
I admit, people can be made to miss this distinction. It is a problem.
It can be argued that leaking the hawkish sentiments of officialdom through the Guardian et al. serves officialdom's purposes. But I doubt Assange or the persons that handed him the big leak (Manning or whoever) are 'owned'. I mean, I guess it's possible, but I don't see a reason to assert it.
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