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Western foreign policy and the dangerous ignorance gap
The enormous distance between the reality of Western foreign policy and the Western public’s understanding of what their governments do in their name is dangerous, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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WHILE the mainstream media’s self-serving obsession with so-called fake news and Russian interference in elections looks set to continue for a long time, a far more serious problem with Western journalism is conveniently ignored.
This could be called the dangerous ignorance gap of Western foreign policy, the often huge gulf between the reality of what the US and Britain do in the Middle East — painfully understood by the populations on the receiving end of Western interference — and the woeful level of awareness the US and British general public and commentariat have about these interventions.
The aggressive and illegal 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq is a key site in understanding this divergence.
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