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> *The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, falsehoods, and fear-mongering about ** >> Iran**’s nuclear program* >> Dec 31, 2010 01:32 am | Nima Shirazi >> >> "To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any >> fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary >> again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to >> deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of >> the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary." >> >> - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four >> >> Facts rarely get in the way of American and Israeli fear-mongering and >> jingoism, especially when it comes to anti-Iran propaganda. For nearly >> thirty years now, U.S. and Zionist politicians and analysts, along with some >> of their European allies, have warned that Iranian nuclear weapons >> capability is just around the corner and that such a possibility would not >> only be catastrophic for Israel with its 400 nuclear warheads and >> state-of-the-art killing power supplied by U.S. taxpayers, but that it would >> also endanger regional dictatorships, Europe, and even the United States. >> >> If these warnings are to be believed, Iran is only a few years away from >> unveiling a nuclear bomb...and has been for the past three decades. >> Fittingly, let's begin in 1984. >> >> >> http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/the-phantom-menace-fantasies-falsehoods-and-fear-mongering-about-irans-nuclear-program.html?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=da99c10e0e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email#comments >> >> > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
