BBC-Iran War Watch

It never fails to surprise me how normal people go along with the agenda of the State, especially when the policy of the State is the generation of endless war. There is a virus running a war fever abound in this world and it's sufferers are noticable first by their suspension of independent thinking, and secondly by their willingness to advocate the use of violence as a solution to every problem.

Then, you have the BBC. What annoys me the most about this government organ is that i am forced to subsidise it's endless propaganda. At least nobody forces me to read Juan Cole when he supports, the ignores the aftermath, of the Libyan war. But the BBC..I pay to hear them lie, and at best distort reality.

This is from the second paragraph of their latest spiel on Iran, The war that the West is trying to gin up at the moment, in ANOTHER Islamic nation...."He did not give any details, but insisted that Iran would never halt its programme to enrich uranium, which can be used to make a nuclear warhead."

And there you have it. Is it just shoddy, lazy journalism, or something more purposefully insidious? The "He" refered to in the sentence is the Iranian president Ahmadinejad.

Now "He" didn't say that the Iran enrichment programme can be used to make nuclear warheads, but the BBC sentence leaves that impression in your mind, or at best connects the dots very early in the article between a nuclear enrichment programme and nuclear warheads.

By the way nuclear enrichment can be used in a variety of ways including for power generation, and medical isotopes.

I've written countless complaints to the BBC about their writing on this important issue, that literally concerns life and death. A fat load of good that does. Mainstream media has jumped into the tank with the usual warmongering suspects concerning the Iranian issue, the best we have to hope for on that front is Russian RT, and the UK proscribed PressTV. In the meanwhile, God help us all.