Here is an article about a propaganda book written by an author who supports the racist Republican Party. The cover of the book shows a red eyed person of Middle Eastern descent wearing black cloth on their face. The title of the book is "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians." If you find this piece of work throw it away, burn it or wreck it somehow. It is a dangerous book. The fact that a Middle Eastern person with red eyes is shown on the front cover implies that they are somehow possessed by a "demon" and full of evil. This article is from the Tennessee Indymedia website.

As if things hadn't gotten any worse, the right wing demagogues who are trying to get rid of Social Security by attacking the AARP are waging a second front on Iran, perhaps beginning the public relations process they deem necessary to usurp the public trust. Nashville-based Cumberland House Publishing has recently announced that it will be releasing the new book by Jerome Corsi titled "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians." Corsi is the co-author of "Unfit for Command" which was part of a PR campaign by the Republican Party to bash Democratic Candidate John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign. The book was an attempt to bash Kerry, a decorated Vietnam Veteran, during the campaign which culminated in the debacle surrounding Sinclair Broadcasting's attempts to air the television program "Stolen Honor, Wounds That Never Heal."
During the fall of 2005 the activist media organization Citizens for a Democratic Media was formed to fight the right wing media bias that pervades national media and was making its most overt expression in the attempts to formulate public opinion via the corporate media with lies and slander. After any overwhelming effort, the natural tendency of a citizen's based grassroots group is to take a well-deserved respite. Unfortunately for those concerned about democracy, taking a break isn't a choice, not with Bush in the White House, Frist in the Senate Majority Leadership, and Cumberland House Publishing in Nashville.

According to the New York Daily News, "Jerome Corsi is at it again." His new book, "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians" is yet another slander campaign designed to manipulate public opinion, this time the target is Iran. As if that weren't bad enough, the Swiftboat Veterans PR group is also waging a second campaign against the AARP, attempting to convince older americans that the AARP, which represenents 35 million people, is an organization that is dedicated to working against the interest of seniors.

This PR campaign is part of a two-fold attack by the Bush administration on two fronts during his second presidential term. The first front is international, the second domestic. Bush is determined to wage two wars at once this administration. First, he is interested in waging war on the elderly, by taking away their social security income and giving it to corporations to gamble with as they feel free. Second, he is intimating an aggressive posture towards Iran, the neighboring state of Iraq, using the same pretext he used invading Iraq, that is the weapons of mass destruction pretense. An invasion of Iran would accomplish two objectives, first it would so overburden the military that it would necessitate the re-introduction of the draft, a long term policy objective of the Bush administration. Secondly, it would successfully entrench the United States in the heart of the Arab world where the United States could go about privatizing public interests and establishing military bases to ensure a secure line of profits.

Cumberland House Publishing isn't planning to release Atomic Iran until next month but the corporate media is already abuzz with speculation about the book and its PR function in the second Bush administration. According to the New York Daily News, the book claims Democratic politicians are being corrupted by Iranian money and helping the nuke-seeking mullahs in Tehran.

Corsi has a reputation as being a firebrand for right wing demagogues and is on the public record as having made statements derogatory of Islam, Democrats, the Media and the Catholic Church. Corsi claims that an organization called the "American Iranian Council" which he claims is funding Democratic candidates and attempting to influence policy. He claims that the goal of the Iranian government is to obtain nuclear capacity and that it will do "whatever it takes" to do this. These provocative statements are cannon fodder for a second Bush administration's pretext to invade Iran in a vein similar to the types of statements and media that were constructed prior to the invasion of Iraq. Bush denies any such foreign policy objectives.

Locally, in Nashville, activists associated with Citizens for a Democratic Media and other related activist-oriented progressives are considering a picket or boycott of Cumberland House Publishing. Anna Thompson, of Citizens for a Democratic Media, says that "the attempts to control public opinion through right wing media bias need to be confronted. Cumberland House Publishing is part of the new PR campaign to sabotage our democratic process and we are considering an active picket or boycott of this media outlet.