09.21.07 - 01:07pm
Interpreting the Iranian president’s request to lay a wreath at the site of the World Trade Centre terror attacks is a complex undertaking but interpreting the hysterical reaction to it is all too easy - and alarming.
09.13.07 - 09:56am
Right now, when it comes to Iran, every shard of metal is a smoking gun; in a classic case of doublethink, while we threaten Iran it is Iran who are the threat; as America and Israel actually train nuclear missiles at Iran the slightest indication that Iran might one day get a bomb of its own justifies the most horrific aggression; and the decisions have already been made, war is inevitable.
08.29.07 - 09:50am
Yesterday, George Bush “ramped up the war of words between the US and Iran” accusing Tehran of “threatening to place the Middle East under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust” and saying that he had authorised US military commanders in Iraq to “confront Tehran’s murderous activities”. Every time an American politician discusses the Middle East they talk of the threat from Iran. Yet in the same breath they invariably make actual threats against that nation.
07.21.07 - 03:50pm
Freedland is supposed to be a classic liberal columnist in Britain’s leading progressive newspaper, yet the article is an instructive example of the way the media accommodates to the establishment line, trying to manufacture consent by means of framing the discussion in a certain way.
