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Worth Repeating

The Real 'Existential Threat' War with Iran augurs a global conflict

by Justin Raimondo

Our "free" media is so eager to accept the official British explanation of why their sailors/Marines wound up in Iranian custody that most Western "news" accounts are ignoring all evidence to the contrary, such as the trenchant observation of former British diplomat Craig Murray: "The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker. But there are two colossal problems. "A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force. "B) Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the point that the British produced border is not a reliable one." What Murray describes as the Brits' "fake map" is being reproduced in all the major Western media, as if it represents something other than a complete fantasy. Hardly surprising, in our Orwellian age: what's astonishing is that they expect there is anyone left who believes anything they say, no matter how many times it is filtered through the echo chamber of the "mainstream" outlets. Journalism is dead: long live stenography. The Western media reported Blair's certainty that the 15 Brits were in Iraqi waters as if it were gospel.

I don't know the reason for the seismic shift in the quality of 'journalism' to the fiasco going on in my neighborhood to the Persian Gulf. Maybe its been going on as long as mass media has been around and maybe the internet is finally exposing it.