Inventing Reality

Here come the narratives!

I said what I said and I meant it. The competition for Most Democratic in the Middle East features such contenders as:

• The failed states of Iraq and Syria
• The slave kingdoms of the Gulf
• The genocidal apartheid entity

Iran has a complex constitutional system that is alien to westerners. Every single politician in the United States has to be approved by the capitalist class, does that make it not a democracy? Even the self-righteous Europeans are completely prostrate before the empire and under military occupation

Talking about "protests" outside of the context of 50 years of regime change operations is a joke