Tom Engelhardt,
TomDispatchNote that Iranian aggression. The rest of the piece, fairly typical of the tone of American media coverage of the ongoing Iran crisis, included sentences like this: The C.I.A. has longstanding secret plans for responding to Iranian provocations. I'm sure I've read such things hundreds of times without ever really stopping to think much about them, but this time I did. And what struck me was this: rare is the moment in such mainstream news reports when Americans are the provocative ones (though the Iranians immediately accused the U.S. military of just that, a provocation,...
