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Patrick Cockburn — When it comes to the Iran protests, be careful who you put your trust in

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A vacuum of information is created which, at a moment of intense international interest, is going to be filled with dubious stories from partisan sources. Never let a good crisis go to waste. The Independent (UK)When it comes to the Iran protests, be careful who you put your trust in Patrick Cockburn Also A truism about U.S. politics and media is that once a foreign leader or a country has been demonized everything written or said about the subject will be skewed to the negative, a rule reflecting Washington’s groupthink and careerism, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes about Iran. Consortium NewsGazing at Iran Through a Distorted Glass Paul R. Pillar, retired CIA officer | nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign

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A vacuum of information is created which, at a moment of intense international interest, is going to be filled with dubious stories from partisan sources.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.

The Independent (UK)
When it comes to the Iran protests, be careful who you put your trust in
Patrick Cockburn

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A truism about U.S. politics and media is that once a foreign leader or a country has been demonized everything written or said about the subject will be skewed to the negative, a rule reflecting Washington’s groupthink and careerism, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes about Iran.
Consortium News
Gazing at Iran Through a Distorted Glass
Paul R. Pillar, retired CIA officer | nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a contributing editor at The National Interest, formerly federal executive fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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