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Covering Syria: The information war
CASMII Media Watch:: by Aisling Byrne (source: Asia Times) July 12, 2012
The narrative that has been constructed by the Western mainstream media on Syria may seem to be self-evident from the scenes presented on television, but it is a narrative duplicitously promoted and coordinated so as to conceal and facilitate the regime-change project that is part of the war on Iran.
Editor's note: Aisling Byrne is projects coordinator with Conflicts Forum and is based in Beirut.
Don't Plan for a Short War with Iran
by Robert Golan-Vilella (source: The National Interest) July 12, 2012
Amid all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding Iran and its nuclear program (some of which The Buzz has previously highlighted), it is refreshing to see a sober, historically grounded look at the subject. This is precisely what Brookings’ Bruce Riedel provides in a sharp piece at the Daily Beast titled “The Last Time We Fought Iran.” Riedel’s article takes a look back at the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, not well remembered in the United States but still hugely important for Iran and the region.