2009-06-17 21:40:50 - The United States of America is watching, with a frission of delight, the meltdown of Friday's elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran. No one here likes Iranians. Their humiliation of the US by the arrest and detention of our diplomatic (espionage) staff for over a year back in 1979 has not been forgotten. And no doubt the Iranians, or very many of them, surely have perfectly understandable grievances against their autocratic government. Yet our concern here in this column must be the orchestra playing in the pits of the US corporate media.

VHeadline's Washington DC-based commentarist Chris Herz writes:

Sycophantic as ever to their ownership the TV and the newspapers here are putting about several legends -- once again using their favored tactic of plausible affirmability.

The first is that Ahmadinejad stole this election. But this is contradicted by the only legitimate polling done in that country, and by a Western organization --

which a week beforehand showed a pending result similar to that which pertained.

The second tactic is one familiar to us all as well: Demonize a regime Washington is determined to undermine, so as to fabricate justification for a military intervention. With this tested technique people in Latin America surely are quite familiar and we need discuss it no longer.

Facts are that while Ahmadinejad loves not the empire, neither do his opponents in the Iranian election. No one in that country wants the USA to impose its own favored compradores on that nation as it did in 1953.

Many have already discussed how blithely the US corporate press and media accepted the very questionable results of the US election in 2000, where even the BBC ... with a minimum of research ... was able to expose the swindle. Yet George W. Bush was foisted on this nation (and the world) with hardly a whimper of complaint from within the establishment or its tame media.

Whatever was left of the credibility of the USA after Vietnam, after Central America, died then and there.

If you are a corporate journalist it is easy and permissible to be skeptical of the results of an Iranian (or a Venezuelan) election. But, unless one seeks a sudden career change, never question the legitimacy of Mr. Bush or any of the other anointed here in Washington D.C.

...and who outside of US borders can doubt that had the invasion and occupation of Iraq gone as Mr Bush had hoped, Iran too by now would have been occupied? Or at least its oil-producing regions. Only the stout resistance of the Iraqis to this 'new age colonialism' scotched that whole design.

We know that US subversive and military agencies already operate against the Islamic Republic, just as they do against the Bolivarian ... and of course so too our unsurpassed propaganda organs.

But even these cannot make white of black ... or right of wrong!

Chris Herz
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