Pompeo Sells War on Nonbelligerent Iran Based on Big Lies

• Pompeo Sells War on Nonbelligerent Iran Based on Big Lies
  by Stephen Lendman, https://stephenlendman.org/
  Appearing on establishment TV Sunday talk shows, Pompeo tried justifying unjustifiable war on Iran — based on Big Lies. More on this below.
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  The Islamic Republic is the Middle East’s leading proponent of peace and stability, seeking cooperative relations with other countries. It’s at war with none, threatening none, polar opposite how the US and its imperial partners operate globally.
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  Longstanding US policy calls for gaining control over all sovereign independent countries, targeting them for regime change by color revolutions, old-fashioned coups, sanctions, tariffs, and hot wars when other strategies fail — serving Wall Street, the nation’s military, industrial, security, media complex, and other corporate interests.
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  Tactics against targeted nations include vilifying their ruling authorities, spreading disinformation, Big Lies, and fake news about them, aimed at building world community and public consensus for actions the US intends to take — no matter how unjustifiable.
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  The strategy requires establishment media support, getting them to stick to the official narrative exclusively, suppressing hard truths, while blasting managed news misinformation and disinformation to readers, listeners and viewers, convincing them by the power of propaganda repeated endlessly.
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  All of the above is a softening up process preceding and accompanying hostile US actions. Throughout the post-WW II era, the US waged endless wars by other means and hot wars against one country after another threatening no one. Without world community, public, and media support, or at least avoiding their opposition, the best laid US plans wouldn’t get out of the starting gate. Time and again, polls show most Americans have negative views about nations the US vilifies, showing the power of propaganda works.
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