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A few different journalists I have been reading have now mentioned a 2009 report from the Brookings Institute called Which Path to Persia. People who have read it note that there are strategies discussed in the report for getting the US/European public to support a war with Iran. One of the possible “paths” include starting a war between Iran and Israel and then reluctantly coming to Israel’s assistance. So far, the strategy laid out in this report seems to have been followed quite closely, assuming this is in fact the strategy that the US is pursuing.

The mainstream media also is publishing headlines that appear to be carefully crafted according to the strategy of the “Which Path to Persia” report: using the passive voice such as “America may be pulled in to conflict”, never mentioning that Iran’s attacks on Israel are retaliatory, calling Israel’s strikes “pre-emptive” (which is an outright lie), and so on.

One person reporting on this is Thomas Karat, who published this 8.5 minute video explaining clearly why he thinks the US is not “being pulled in,” but driving this war as part of a much larger, decades-long strategy that began after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks to control all oil resources in the middle east. He makes a good point, it is worth considering.

• Karat’s blog: https://karat.substack.com/about

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