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Iranian TV Fills the "Blank Spots" in Our National History, by Ron Unz

19-3-2023 < UNZ 32 1196 words
 

I recently read Lenin’s Tomb, David Remnick’s Pulitzer Prize winning 1993 account of the decay and political collapse of the Soviet Union, and one of the crucial points he emphasized was that Soviet history contained many important “Blank Spots,” deeply suppressed facts or incidents central to the true history of that unfortunate country.

Just as information suppressed by the Soviet authorities had once circulated freely in the West, topics totally banned from today’s Western media are openly discussed in other societies, which possess entirely different taboos.


A few months ago I was contacted by a host for Iranian broadcast television who had decided to feature interviews with a number of Western dissident thinkers, individuals whose controversial views had excluded them from American media outlets. Channel Four of the Iran Broadcasting Corporation is one of that country’s largest, having a potential audience of ten million, and I gladly spent four hours discussing a variety of my topics, while also suggesting a number of other figures who were also interviewed as well.


Thirty-odd segments featuring about a dozen different guests were ultimately recorded, and as they have been aired, they are also being released on a streaming website. About half are now available, including most of my own and those featuring E. Michael Jones, Nick Kollerstrom, Kevin Barrett, and Laurent Guyénot. For more convenient Western access, I had them video-captured and uploaded to a Rumble channel, realizing that many of the taboo topics would immediately trigger a purge on Youtube.



Those of my interviews already broadcast included discussions of the JFK Assassination, the 9/11 Attacks, and the Holocaust, and I was reasonably pleased with how they came out. I’m embedding these video segments below, followed in each case by some of the main articles I had previously published on those particular topics.



The JFK Assassination, Part I • 25m


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The JFK Assassination, Part II • 31m


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9/11 Conspiracies, Part I • 25m


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9/11 Conspiracies, Part II • 35m


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Analyzing the Holocaust, Part I • 25m


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Analyzing the Holocaust, Part II • 32m


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Important issues of race and ethnicity also constitute an enormous “Blank Spot” in today’s Western world, with crucial facts totally excluded from any candid public discussion and probably most private ones as well. But although these topics were not covered on Iranian television, I have written very widely on these subjects over the years, and some of my most substantial articles are provided below.




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Finally, one of the most extreme “Blank Spots” in today’s West has been the likely origins of the Covid epidemic, which killed around three million Westerners and greatly disrupted the lives of many billions around the world.


Over the last three years I written a long series of articles pointing to the strong even overwhelming evidence that the global outbreak outbreak was the result of a botched American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), and until very recently there was virtually no discussion of this issue in either the mainstream or even the alternative Western media.



Kevin Barrett, FFWN • February 16, 2022 • 15m


Geopolitics & Empire • February 1, 2022 • 75m


Red Ice TV • February 3, 2022 • 130m


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