All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don’t. They call us       to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo.

     Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average       reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of       being around political campaigns.

     That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.

     -Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications            under Obama

“Real journalism” is propaganda from Washington DC.

The news simply quotes the politicians, believes the names of bills will become reality, and buys hook, line, and sinker what the spy-masters in the Pentagon tell them.

And here we are again, being sold a justification for yet another war in the middle east.

The US government claims that Iran attacked a Japanese shipping vessel with mines. Iran claims this is a lie.

I’m not going to pretend I know the truth, even though my initial reaction is always suspicion. Much like the reports that Assad attacked his people with chemical weapons in Syria, it is hard to see what Iran would gain from attacking the vessel.

The events just seem too perfect, justifying what America already wanted: to go to war.