THE MEDIA PLAYS DOWN OR COMPLETELY IGNORES DEADLY SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN AND VENEZUELA

On “Democracy Now,” Amy Goodman asked why Iran has been so hard hit by Coronavirus, and not one word about the U.S.-imposed international sanctions in her Friday’s hour and a half program about the pandemic. Obviously, the sanctions have impeded Iran’s ability to face the coronavirus problem, but instead the interviewer attributed Iran’s problem to religious concentrations. Nor did Amy Goodman reference sanctions in her mention of coronavirus in Venezuela. Why is this? Particularly in the case of Venezuela, the criminal international sanctions and the aggressive moves of the Trump administration, especially in the context of the coronavirus, is a no-topic. Why? It would seem that the interest of the commercial media is confined to issues that directly affect the U.S. I very much appreciate “Democracy Now” and listen to it nearly every day, but this is an issue that Amy Goodman needs to take up in a big way in order to compensate for the failure of the commercial media to report on the concrete effects of the sanctions.
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