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Iran Has Shown That Western Civilization Is a Grotesque Monster of Hypocrisy
And the harsh lessons of 1953 are with us in 2025.
Our political leaders have never been given to introspection.
And this special quality isn’t unique to Republicans and democrats in the United States and nor is it peculiar to their colleagues in the House of Commons in Westminster.
In the recently concluded G7 meeting in Canada, we saw leaders of America, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Japan, issuing a statement condemning Iran’s reprisal attacks from its regional foe.
And we are all meant to believe that the nation-state which practices apartheid, has nuclear weapons and committed genocide in real-time are the good guys and the ones defending themselves are the bad guys?
But that’s western civilization, folks.
It is as if the wars which exploded among these supposedly civilized folks when the Dutch and Brits went head to head in Europe, Asia and Africa never happened; it is as though the wiping out of the indigenous population in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America was made up fables.
And it is as though the enslavement of millions of Africans for hundreds of years, was part of a mission to elevate the fortunes of those…