Reality TV Hits Rock Bottom

When the East collapsed, the disillusioned former Communists were ruthlessly suited to accommodate themselves to the new capitalist rules and the new cruel world of market efficiency, inclusive of all the new and old dirty tricks and corruption.

Conventional wisdom holds that propaganda and indoctrination are the main instruments for social control employed within totalitarian regimes while citizens of democratic societies are free to make up their own minds. The opposite is in fact true.

With all the hallmarks of an orchestrated political provocation, the US, Britain and France, with the support of Germany, denounced a supposedly secret Iranian nuclear plant, threatening stepped-up economic sanctions and possible military action.

How the West Loves to Hate! Now France and Germany have leaped on the anti-Iranian bandwagon with enthusiasm, threatening to implement stringent new sanctions, while Obama comes up with a September deadline by which time Iran must relinquish its righ

"Did you wear a burqa when you lived in Saudi Arabia?" a young western woman asked. I said yes. "But weren't you outraged?" "Not particularly," I said. Fixing me with an earnest stare she declared, "Well if you weren't then I am outraged for you!"

After the election on June 12, it"s certain that many of Iran's more affluent, urban-activist and technologically savvy youth had concluded that they could achieve their political objectives best by using their protests as propaganda in the West.

The mass media narrative of events unfolding in Iran has been set out for us as clear as a fairytale: an evil dictatorship has rigged elections and now violently suppresses its country's democrats, hysterically blaming foreign saboteurs.

The Obama regime badly fumbled after a good start in addressing the situation in Iran. The White House must now deal with Khamenei at the peak of his political power, and Ahmadinejad - who will now negotiate from a position of unprecedented strength.

It's the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Next, the Western media go into overdrive.

From the outset, the color-coded campaign to replace incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Mir Hossein Mousavi has been a highly orchestrated political operation backed by the US and managed by dissident elements of Iran's ruling elite.

The power of western cultural propaganda never ceases to amaze me. Most of the people protesting on the streets in Tehran have well-off Mummies and Daddies who provide satellite dishes and internet connections for their spoiled children.