UNMASKING THE WEST

In the opening days of what is shaping up to be a catastrophic war of aggression against Iran, the machinery of Western propaganda has sprung into action with an efficiency that would be impressive if it were not so deceitful and grotesque. The coverage emanating from outlets like the BBC has become a form of self-satire, a caricature of bias so blatant that they no longer bother to pretend to be real journalists.

The excuses and justifications for the actions don’t stack up.

They jump from one lie to the next without a thought for how flimsy and contradictory it all reads. Are we here to save Iranian women from the Mullahs or is it to stop the Ayatollah from getting nukes?

It doesn’t matter that Iranian women don’t want to be saved and that they don’t even have nuclear ambitions, never mind a nuclear program.

Unfortunately, some of the lies do stick.

An Irish Times reader told me yesterday that the Ayatollah ordered the death of 40,000 of his own people only weeks ago. Because I have friends and contacts in Iran and because I keep tabs on a handful of independent Iranian journalists, I know that to be total bull, fabricated and pushed by Western pro-war media ahead of the invasion in order to preemptively justify imperial attack.

The names and backstories of all those killed during the regime change riots were published. Iranians know exactly who was killed and by whom.

If the failed CIA-MOSSAD colour revolution wasn’t enough to show you what was going on, it was always going to be difficult for you to work out what’s what once the invasion started.

The Western hierarchy of human value is laid bare in every single broadcast. In one BBC report, four fallen US troops were given the full treatment. Their pictures displayed, their names spoken, their ages and backgrounds tenderly described. They were presented as individuals, as humans worthy of sympathy and grief.

Mere minutes later, a separate segment casually noted the funeral of the 165 schoolgirls killed by a US missile strike days earlier.

They were not named. Their faces were not shown. They were simply a number, an anonymous mass of collateral damage lumped together with the usual journalistic shorthand that signals to the audience that these lives do not matter. The message is unmistakable. American lives are real and have value.

Iranian casualties are barely relevant statistics.

This dehumanisation is the bedrock upon which empire builds its wars. It allows the Western public to mourn its own while remaining comfortably numb to the slaughter of others.

It is the same logic that saw Russia banned by the IOC and FIFA almost immediately after the invasion of Ukraine, while the US and Israel are guaranteed to face no such sanction. The rules of international justice apply only to the enemies of the West, never to the imperial belligerents themselves.

To justify this naked aggression, the propaganda machine has wheeled out its usual supporting cast. We have all seen the testimonies of expatriated Iranian monarchists, paraded across Western screens as authentic voices of dissent. These figures, who celebrate the invasion of their own country and cheer the killing of their own leaders, are almost impossible to understand as genuine political actors. They are, as many Iranian commentators have long noted, a manufactured opposition. They are a collection of well-funded personalities on the payroll of CIA and USAID front organisations, intent on harming their own people to accumulate favour with their paymasters.

The actual footage emerging from inside Iran tells a very different story. It shows a population rallying around the regime in a display of national unity that would have been unimaginable only years ago. The effect of decades of Western sanctions, subversion, and black propaganda has been lost in a flash of imperial hubris. Not only have they failed to weaken the government, but they have inadvertently turned even its most fervent opponents into defenders of the resistance.

While the media conducts its psychological war, the political architecture of the “international community” is revealing its true imperialist nature. European “solidarity” has proven to be a myth. Spain stands as the only EU member to have opposed this war, refusing the US access to its military bases for strikes against Iran. For this act of sovereign defiance, Spain has been threatened with economic retaliation. The threat comes not only from Washington, but with the tacit approval of Friedrich Merz, the BlackRock executive who now runs Germany. Merz has lined up behind Emperor Trump’s punishment of the Spanish state.

The excuse offered by Merz is that Spain refuses to raise military spending to 5% of GDP but that is a transparent fiction.

This is not about defence budgets; it is about punishing a nation for refusing to support another genocide. Germany, having positioned itself as a leading backer of the genocide in Gaza and a primary instigator in the Ukraine proxy war, now seeks to become the US’s preferred frontline state in the war against Iran.

All principles, all pretence of international law, have been abandoned. Germany has returned to being a rogue state, run by vassals of the American empire who sell out their own populations for the promise of a seat at the imperial table.

Yet perhaps the empire’s greatest achievement is not its fondness for violence on a mass scale, nor its media’s willingness to cover up crimes, nor its political class who enthusiastically support its wars, coups, and regime change operations. It is the millions of ordinary people who will defend its atrocities for free. Regular American and British schmucks on the internet are trampling over each other to prove their loyalty to warhawks in the US State Department but these fools will never see a cent from Lockheed Martin. They will never profit from the sanctions that starve children in targeted nations. But they will fight to the death online to protect the narratives that keep the arms profits flowing and the bombs falling. They will argue passionately why other people’s children deserve to die. This is what a captured mind looks like. It is a final, essential signal of imperial collapse.

The West is screwed whether they win this war or lose. You can recover from hubris or ignorance; the West could theoretically build back its industrial capacity and start again to make decisions in the interests of people living in the West rather than the interests of a handful of psychopathic billionaire troglodytes, but there’s no cure for immorality. Deceitful, backstabbing, duplicitous fuckery has infected our whole system. It’s embedded in the DNA of Western power and there is no cure for that.

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